Today, November 25, 2009 starting 12.00 MSK trademark holders and state authorities may enjoy .?? Domains Sunrise Registration as per the approved schedule. RU-CENTER clients – Russian-named trademark holders may register .?? domains at 1200 rub (including VAT). Sunrise registration is provided for domain names corresponding to verbal symbols...

Figures are current as of today. Total # of IDNs registered in .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz: 964,894 By extension: .com – 699,737 (72.51%) .net – 197,037 (20.42%) .org – 18,736 (1.94%) .info – 25,851 (2.68%) .biz – 23,533 (2.44%) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .com & .net figures for language (These are not ...

Just a brief message to keep you up to date. As of 00:00 UTC today ? 4 days after the launch of the Fast Track Process we have new requests coming in. The total number is 10 requests. They spread over 5 different languages. Details about the process is at: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/ Please keep asking questions. Is there is anyt...

Priority for Existing Alphanumeric .Asia Domain Registrants for Corresponding IDNs Considered 18 November 2009 ? Hong Kong ? DotAsia announces plan to release multilingual domain (IDN ? Internationalized Domain Name) registrations in 2010. Following announcements by ICANN to approve the use of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), DotAsia Organisat...

Brand owners have been advised to review domain name watching activities after the process for transforming the Internet with internationalized domain names (IDNs) in non-Latin script opened earlier today. At midnight UTC, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) started accepting requests from representatives of countries an...

International Internet regulator ICANN is accepting applications for non-Latin alphabet Web addresses this week. Media outlets around the globe weigh in on if the breakthrough will benefit the cyberspace.

The IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process was successfully launched, as planned on 16 November 2009. It was done at exactly 00:00UTC with a very joyful count-down by the Fast Track Staff Team ? followed by a wooohooo The launch went smoothly. We have since monitored the system and everything is working. As of 10pm Pacific time

Egypt will open the world's first Arabic language internet domain, its communications minister has said. Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be ".masr" written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as ".Egypt". "It is a great moment for us… The internet now speaks Arabic," Mr Kamel said. Last month, internet regulator Icann voted to al...

As we (at ICANN staff) have been preparing for the Fast Track launch, for tomorrow, it was suggested to me that I write a blog post about it. I could have written about all the hard work, the long hours, the aggressive testing of the online system, keeping it simple and yet flexible for all

So now that the media hype over internationalized domain names (IDNs) has died down, let?s focus on the messy details of what this all means. First of all, we?re not about to see the non-Latin equivalent of .com anytime soon. Certainly not next year. There are several reason for this which I will cover in a

Nov 11, 2009 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) — EuroDNS announces the opening of a pre-registration period for .eu Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), based on a first-come, first-served model. Companies and individuals based in the European Union have now the opportunity to register domain names that contain non-Latin characters under the .eu domai...

Seoul,? Oct 26 Tina Dam Sr. Director, IDNs What is the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process ? Process to introduce a limited number of IDN ccTLDs, that ? are associated with ISO3166?1 two?letter codes ? are comprised of non?Latin characters ? includes government and community support ? represent country/territory names ? ensure...

Seoul, 25 Oct IDN Implementation Status ? With responsible rules and oversight, significant consensus to launch Fast Track process soon ? The Board will consider launching that process at this meeting ? Additionally, significant progress has been made towards the launch of the new gTLD process, including the delegation of IDNs ? Culmination of year...

As mentioned earlier,?the registration of TLDs ( .?? for Russian Federation) will take place starting 16 November 2009. Afterwards, the accreditation of Second Level Domains (SLDs)?will commence at the end of November. At the top of the priorities list are the Governmental institutions (eligible for free registration), trade mark owners and the adm...

Here at Seoul 36th ICANN Meeting, ICANN Board has just approved to Launch ?IDN ccTLD Fast Track Program?. Application Period for IDN ccTLD Fast Track Program is going to be start on 16th Nov. The new rules for IDN Script are as follows: 1. the string must be a minimum of two characters long (U-label), 2. characters are counted

Anyone who knows Kenya knows it is famous for tea. And while I can now get Kenyan tea online from US companies like Starbucks, Caribou Coffee or any number of other re-sellers, like most consumers I would vastly prefer to cut out the middle man and buy my tea direct from Kenyan companies. Why not? But here's the rub. Besides me and a significant ...

The Internet is on the verge of undergoing one of its most significant changes in its 40-year history. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is finalizing plans to introduce non-Latin characters such as Arabic, Korean, Greek, Hindi, Japanese and Cyrillic. Non-Latin domain names—commonly referred to as Internationaliz...

When he wanted to show the transformative and unifying power of the Internet to open this week's ICANN meeting in Seoul, ICANN President Rod Beckstrom had an ace in the hole: Korean guitarist Jay (Jeong-hyun Lim), who became a global YouTube sensation with his hard-rocking version of Pachelbel's Canon. As I watched Jay wail on his gold-plated gui...

ICANN is pleased to announce the public posting of the Proposed Final Implementation Plan for the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process [PDF, 897K]. The IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process is an important step at making the Internet equally accessible for everyone. It will enable the introduction of a limited number of internationalized country-code top level doma...

Have you invested in .CN Domain Names? Right now, it does seem like it?s a sound and a valuable piece of internet real estate (with 338 million internet users) but situations have changed. The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has recently announced that China Language Domain Names (.??) will soon be possible? ? The new

Brussels, 10 September 2009 ? EURid is pleased to announce that .eu will support internationalised domain names (IDNs) effective 10 December. For the first time, residents of the European Union will be able to register a .eu domain name made up of non-Latin characters. ?IDNs are particularly important for .eu,? notes Marc Van Wesemael, EURid Genera...

ICANN is pleased to provide the following status report on the progress of implementation of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process. Overall, the implementation is tracking to the project plan and it is planned to be submitted to the Board during the ICANN meeting in Korea, Seoul, 26-30 October 2009. Discussion of the implementation plan

One particularly important aspect of ICANN?s launch of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will be the availability of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) at the top level. That eagerly anticipated enhancement to Internet participation has also raised some issues. For example, current practice dictates that gTLDs contain at least three charact...

A couple months ago I blogged about EAI Email Address Internationalization/Internationalized Email Addresses (EAI/IMA) and felt like blogging again. China's been very interested in non-ASCII email addresses for some time, and is working hard to adopt the EAI standard.? I've heard a target of November 2009 for that standard.? http://www.china.org.cn...

The IDNC working group, whose formation was approved by the ICANN Board during the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles, finished their recommendations to create a fast track approach to introduce a limited number of IDN ccTLDs. The IDNC working group final report was approved by the ICANN Board during the ICANN Paris meeting, where the

A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) domain name dispute adjudication panel has found two companies owned by Hong Kong billionaire, Li Ka Shing, guilty of Attempted Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, over the domain name, ??.com, which means YangtzeRiver.com. Geneva, Switzerland, August 3, 2009 ? A World Intellectual Property Organization ...

First, let me say that I am thrilled to be on board as ICANN?s CEO and President. The moment I joined this exciting organization I found it working on an incredible range of activities involving an array of constituencies. Without doubt, ICANN is the most complex organization I have ever come across, necessarily, at least in

Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organization, Telnic Limited recently announced that subscribers to the new .tel service can now view and manage .tel domains in more than 11 languages online. // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ OAS_AD('Middle'); // ]]>// < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ var TFSMFlash_PRETAG=""; var TFSMFlash_POSTTAG=""; var TFSMFlash_VERSI...

Hoy Javier Florent?n (Due?os.net) me ha avisado por Facebook de que uno de sus dominios est? siendo subastado en Sedo (la subasta finaliza el 15 de julio). He pensado que tal vez ser?a interesante escribir este post porque me parece que hace ya un tiempo que no comentamos mucho sobre dominios .info y, en este caso

IDN.mobi has now been launched in China. 1.3 Billion people reside in China offering a great opportunity for .mobi as a domain to gain more traction with the world?s most populated country. Dot Mobi have informed ?OKOK? that this was just a formal signing with CATR – the China Academy of Telecommunication Research. (An internationalized doma...

The introduction of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) represents one of the most significant advancements in the history of the internet. A majority of internet users today have a first language other than English and many languages utilise characters not currently available within the DNS. IDNs provide these users with the capability to naviga...

With the IDN work for Internationalized Domain Names using characters beyond ASCII, it is only natural to tackle the problem of Internationalized Internet eMail. Some smart people have been working on an IETF working group to figure out how non-ASCII email would work, and I encourage people to take a look: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/eai...

31 May 2009 Updated 4 June 2009 One more paper is being included in the Fast Track Implementation package, Cost Analysis of IDN ccTLDs: Focus on Program Development and Processing Costs [PDF, 148K]. This paper provides cost analyses of the IDN ccTLDs including the costs to process a request for a new IDN ccTLD as well

4 June 2009 10:00 AM Eastern 40 IDN's sells as package for 8000 EUR on Rick Latona Auctions. Sale include russian asia.com, lottery.com russia.net, music.net; arabic oil.com, egypt.net; hebrew business.com, search.com full list: p?ginasm?viles.com Spanish mobilepages.com xn--pginasmviles-cbb2x.com tel?fonosgratis.com Spanish freephones.com x...

6/4/2009 10:00 AM Eastern 40 IDN's sells as package for 8000 EUR on Rick Latona Auctions. Sale include russian asia.com, lottery.com russia.net, music.net; arabic oil.com, egypt.net; hebrew business.com, search.com full list: p?ginasm?viles.com Spanish mobilepages.com xn--pginasmviles-cbb2x.com tel?fonosgratis.com Spanish freephones.com xn--...

Bulgarian residents will be able to register domain names in Cyrillic by the end of the year, the country's foreign minister vowed. The goal was described by Foreign Minister Ivaylo Kalfin as part of the state policy, even though the press conference he gave was part of his electioneering as Socialists' top candidate for the European...

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Contributing to the Standardization Activity of the E-mail Address Internationalization On 31 March 2009, an RFC which specifies a standard for E-mail Address Internationalization (EAI) and was co-authored by two (2) engineers of JPRS was published. This means that EAI is prepared for the field tests toward the actual utilization. An e-mail address...