Sri Lanka and Thailand join ranks of countries getting their own ccTLD in their own language. ICANN has delegated five more internationalized domain names for top level country code domain names. Yesterday the ICANN board approved a resolution ... Continue Reading1 Comment
China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Get IDN Country Code Top Level Domain Names
· Policy & LawAsian language top level domains coming to the internet. The Board of ICANN has approved the delegation of two Chinese-character country code top level domain names to China, two to Taiwan, and one to Hong Kong. During ICANN's board meeting ... Continue Reading1 Comment
IDN Top Level Domain Names in a Nutshell
· UncategorizedA simple primer to IDN top level domains, courtesy of ICANN. One of the reasons many people are "turned off" by internationalized domain names is that they don't understand how they work. Admittedly, much of the information about IDNs to date has been ... Continue Reading2 Comments
An Historic Day: First IDN Top Level Domain Names Go Live
· UncategorizedFirst IDN top level domains hit the web. Today was a historic day for domain names and internationalized domain names, as the first three non-Latin script top level domain names went live. All three are country code top level domains under the IDN ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Commentless Comment Periods at ICANN
· Policy & Law9 comment periods end tomorrow -- but commenting is light. Nine different open comment subjects at ICANN close tomorrow -- and four of them don't have a single comment. Despite comment period overload, I'm surprised to see certain communities not ... Continue Reading4 Comments
.Tel to Launch IDNs in 16 Languages in June
· Uncategorized.Tel domain names get IDNs in June. Coming soon: Jörn.tel, Júlia.tel, and Bjørn.tel. .Tel registry Telnic is launching registration of .tel Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in 16 languages on June 15. IDNs will be available in Chinese, ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Poor IDNs. The Media Will Never Understand.
· Policy & LawRecent coverage of internationalized domain names was erroneous. They sky is falling! The sky is falling! Or so the headlines read. Last week I mentioned an article in The London Times about the introduction of domain names with non-Roman ... Continue Reading11 Comments
Russians Not Keen on IDN Top Level Domain
· Policy & LawStory shines light on fears of IDNs, but it's really an issue of ccTLDs. The reaction was swift and positive -- finally, after years of typing in Latin-based top level domains, people who use different character sets would soon be able to type in new ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Friday Domain News Bytes
· UncategorizedQuick news updates before the weekend. It's the Friday before Halloween and there's a lot of domain news to report. I'll be taking off early today to go to my daughter's Halloween school carnival (she's dressing up as a Flamingo), so here's a ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Will IDN Top Level Domains Kill Existing IDN Domain Names?
· Policy & LawTop level IDNs may create problems for existing second level IDN domains. ICANN is moving full steam ahead with top level country code internationalized domain names. This means that countries that use scripts other than Latin will have the ... Continue Reading24 Comments