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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…
MEP Slams Bulgarian Govt for Falling Behind with Cyrillic Internet Domains
by IDN News on Jul.14, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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…
SGNIC Launches Internationalised Domain Names
by IDN News on Jun.14, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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
EURid and UNESCO assess IDN uptake
by IDN News on May.30, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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 …
Dot VN Announces Vietnamese IDN Registrations Exceed 150,000
by IDN News on May.18, 2011, under News
IDN News: 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…