[...] ICANN: The Importance of IDN Compliance ICANN’s Director of IDN discusses the importance of technical compliance for international domain names. ICANN Director of the IDN Program Tina Dam wrote about the importance of compliance with IDN technical requirements on the ICANN blog today. It’s a must read for anyone who has invested in international domain names (domains that use non-roman/latin characters) or considering them as new IDN TLDs are introduced. Dam stresses that technical compliance is required for the long term success of IDNs. Without it, the IDN system will collapse. This is especially important when new top level IDNs are released in the coming years. (Currently, IDNs are only available for registration at the second level with a roman character top level domain). More… [...]