Create Your Account  |  Log in  |  Contact Latest News Afilias Announces Intention to Apply for Chinese IDN Versions of .INFO Domain DUBLIN–(Afilias Limited, the ICANN-designated registry operator for the .INFO top level domain (TLD) and a global provider of technical registry services, today announced that it will apply for the Simplified and Traditional Chinese language equivalents of .INFO under ICANN’s new gTLD program. “Given the global presence of Afil... IDN News - Saturday, December 24, 2011 - 21:1 IDN Variant Issues Project: Draft Integrated Issues Report Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose On 20 April 2011, ICANN announced the IDN Variant Issues Project to explore the benefits and risks associated with the potential inclusion of IDN variant TLDs in the DNS root zone. This project was initiated in response to a 2010 ICANN Board of Directors resolution.  ICANN is publ... IDN News - Saturday, December 24, 2011 - 20:57 Revised IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Implementation Plan 15 December 2011 Following the ICANN Board’s approval on 8 December 2011 of the amendment to the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Implementation Plan, ICANN is providing this notice of publication for the Revised Implementation Plan. This amendment was considered following guidance received from the ccNSO during the ICANN meeting i... IDN News - Saturday, December 24, 2011 - 20:55 Domain .?? success is one of the major events in 2011 On 22 November 2011, the Federal Agency for Printed and Mass Media (Rospechat) in tandem with the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC) co-organized a press conference “Runet: year in review and prospects of expansion” at the RIA Novosti press center . Andrey Kolesnikov, the CC’s CEO, took part in the press confere... IDN News - Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 20:59 IDN Implementation Guidelines v.3 Following the ICANN Board’s acceptance at the October 2011 meeting in Dakar, Senegal, ICANN is today providing notice of implementation for version 3.0 of the Guidelines for Implementation of Internationalized Domain Names. The IDN Guidelines are a list of general standards that many top-level domain registries deploying IDNs a... IDN News - Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 20:47 Malaysia Successfully Passes String Evaluation 20 October 2011 ICANN is pleased to announce the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for Malaysia. Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board at its annual meeting in Seoul, South Korea on ... IDN News - Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 20:45 IDN ccTLD Request From Kazakhstan Successfully Passes String Evaluation ICANN is pleased to announce the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for Kazakhstan. Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board at its annual meeting in Seoul, South Korea on 30 October 200... IDN News - Friday, September 9, 2011 - 21:28 IDN.vn Surpasses Standard ASCII.VN Registrations Dot VN, Inc., ( (OTC Trading Symbol: DTVI), an Internet and Telecommunications Company and the exclusive online global domain name registrar for the Country of Vietnam (“the Company” or “Dot VN”), announced today that since it’s official launch of the Vietnamese Native Language Internationalized Domain Names (“Vietnamese IDN”) on Apr... IDN News - Friday, July 29, 2011 - 10:33 IDN now supported by Google AdWords If you write your ads in any language other than English, you may have wished that you could make your display URL consistent with the rest of your ad by showing your internationalized domain name. Today, we’re announcing that we now support non-ASCII characters, including non-Latin characters and Latin characters with accents and di... IDN News - Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 9:57 MEP Slams Bulgarian Govt for Falling Behind with Cyrillic Internet Domains Bulgaria’s government is failing to facilitate the process for the introduction Internet domains in Cyrillic, Bulgarian Member of the European Parliament Ivaylo Kalfin declared after meeting the ICANN management in DC. “The unwillingness of the Bulgarian government to provide arguments and to enter into a dialogue is an o... IDN News - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 10:56 SGNIC Launches Internationalised Domain Names On 15 June 2011, SGNIC announced the launch of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs). The launch will take place in the following phases: Sunrise Phase 1          4 July 11 – 15 August 11 Sunrise Phase 2         12 September 11 – 8 November 11 General Launch          14 December 11 onwards Registrations of IDNs can be made with IDN News - Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 7:49 EURid and UNESCO assess IDN uptake Brussels, 31 May 2011 – More work is needed to stimulate online multilingualism and the uptake of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs), according to a new .eu Insights report published today by EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain (TLD). The report was prepared in cooperation with UNESCO, United Nations agency promoting ... IDN News - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 6:40 Dot VN Announces Vietnamese IDN Registrations Exceed 150,000 SAN DIEGO, May 18, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Dot VN, Inc., ( (Pink Sheets:DTVI), an Internet and Telecommunications Company and the exclusive online global domain name registrar for the Country of Vietnam (“the Company” or “Dot VN”), announced today that since it’s official launch of the Vietnamese N... IDN News - Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 5:29 Gulf Times: Qatar registry launches Arabic domain names Last night, Qatar became one of the first countries in the world to offer Arabic domain names to Internet users as ictQatar officials launched the Qatar Domains Registry, making the Internet more accessible to Arabic customers. The first phase of the introduction of the Qatar Domains Registry (QDR) will see select organisations alloc... IDN News - Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 7:26 Gulf Times: Qatar registry launches Arabic domain names Last night, Qatar became one of the first countries in the world to offer Arabic domain names to Internet users as ictQatar officials launched the Qatar Domains Registry, making the Internet more accessible to Arabic customers. The first phase of the introduction of the Qatar Domains Registry (QDR) will see select organisations alloc... IDN News - Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 6:26 Dynadot: ORG Cyrillic IDN Launch On February 19, 2011 the central registry for ORG domains will be launching support for Cyrillic IDNs. Cyrillic IDNs will be available in the following languages: Bosnian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian. LAUNCH INDICATOR Cyrillic ORG IDNs are scheduled to go live sometime at 19:00 UTC, on February ... IDN News - Friday, February 11, 2011 - 0:30 IDN ccTLD Request From Georgia Successfully Passes String Evaluation ICANN is pleased to announce the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for Georgia. Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board at its annual meeting in Seoul, South Korea on 30 October 2009. ... IDN News - Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 22:29 IDN ccTLD Request From Georgia Successfully Passes String Evaluation ICANN is pleased to announce the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for Georgia. Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board at its annual meeting in Seoul, South Korea on 30 October 2009. ... 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