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Afilias Announces Intention to Apply for Chinese IDN Versions of .INFO Domain
by IDN News on Dec.24, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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 Variant Issues Project: Draft Integrated Issues Report
by IDN News on Dec.24, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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…
Revised IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Implementation Plan
by IDN News on Dec.24, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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…
Domain .РФ success is one of the major events in 2011
by IDN News on Nov.30, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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 Implementation Guidelines v.3
by IDN News on Nov.29, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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…
Malaysia Successfully Passes String Evaluation
by IDN News on Nov.29, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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 …
Malaysia Successfully Passes String Evaluation
by IDN News on Nov.29, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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 ccTLD Request From Kazakhstan Successfully Passes String Evaluation
by IDN News on Sep.09, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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.vn Surpasses Standard ASCII.VN Registrations
by IDN News on Jul.29, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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 now supported by Google AdWords
by IDN News on Jul.27, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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…