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 IDNBlog.com: For sports fans, the site битва.org (“Battle” in Russian), should hold your interest. The organizers of an extreme sports competition, the multisport marathon, launched the site in August. In addition, the event has been heavily promoted on Russian television and the associated commercial prominently showcases the IDN: Th…

 IDNBlog.com: In January, Tina Dam announced her resignation from the post of Senior Director of IDNs at ICANN. Then, just this past week ICANN CEO, Rod Beckstrom suddenly announced his retirement with no replacement in sight. This past year there were huge strides in the IDN ccTLD program, highlighted by the successful launch of Russia’s .р…

 IDNBlog.com: A critical tool in developing site traffic is Google Adwords. In short, it is a great way to place targeted ads for cheap. The problem has always been that Adwords was not fully IDN compatible. Instead of being able to post an IDN that you are advertising, such as игры.рф, you previously had to use

 IDNBlog.com: Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Verisign Naming Services, and Andrew Alleman of Domain Name Wire recently discussed new IDNs in an article here. Notably, the article pronounces that with regards to full IDN .com aliasing “you can expect .com equivalents in Japanese, Hangul, Chinese, Cyrillic, Arabic, and …

 IDNBlog.com: ICANN’s vote today approved new generic top level domain names (gTLDs), which may be applied for in any language. This vote not only paves the way for new domains like .Coke, .FedEx and .Target, but more significantly opens the door for internationalized domain names (IDNs) such as .קום, .ком and .ألعاب. As a direct result

 IDNBlog.com: VeriSign’s May letter to ICANN began by touting the rise of IDNs: “While in the past most users of the web communicated in English using Latin script, in 2011 27% use English, 23% use Chinese script, and of the top 10 languages found on the Net, fully half – Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Russian and Korean

 IDNBlog.com: More than 25% of the top 20 sales from this week’s DNJournal sales chart are not in English. The six non-English domains highlighted across the top 20 below include an IDN and span across many languages including French, German and Spanish. Even more telling is that this megatrend is not only visible at the top

 IDNBlog.com: The latest issue of Managing IP magazine featured a cover article entitled, “How to Take Advantage of IDNs.” Managing IP magazine is the leading publication for intellectual property executives looking to build and maintain their IP portfolios. In this IDN themed issue, end-users are taking note of the importance of ownin…

 IDNBlog.com: I bought bangqiu.asia, which means “baseball” in Mandarin Pinyin. SInce I registered this name before May 10, 2011, I will be able to apply for the IDN version 棒球.asia during the sunrise period, and well before the landrush. Similarly, if you’d like to have the opportunity to register a top IDN.asia name during the …

 IDNBlog.com: What will happen with the aliasing of IDNs and how soon? This question loomed large for many readers of the latest April 15, 2011 Draft of the Applicant Guidebook for New gTLDs, where the treatment of existing IDNs did not receive much attention. A particular concern given the latest guidebook is that owners of IDN.com