After reporting on the successful defence of IDN matériel.net from the owners of materiel.net, there seems to have recently been another case were the decision (unfairly?) went the other way.
Monografias.com, one of the most popular sites in Latin America, wins over its accented domain with the help of WIPO.
On May 28, 2008 a Panel [...]
“.china” will formally enter the global Internet in 2009. The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) officially launched “China’s domain name global escalation action” on July 16, according to Chinanews.com.
The main contents of this action are from the day domain name “.china” enters the global root domain name system and all those registered users of [...]
In the first three months of ‘08, 14 million domain names were added to the internet, according to the first quarter 2008 Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign — via MarketingCharts. That’s a 17 percent increase over the fourth quarter of 2007, and 15 percent over the year-earlier period.
At the end of the first [...]
One of our goals is to give everyone using Google the information they want, wherever they are, in whatever language they speak, and through whatever device they’re using. A huge part of that goal is making our services available in as many languages as possible. And as I’m sure you can imagine, that isn’t as [...]
法律.com just went to auction at snapnames and went for (a bargain) $9,638.00.
法律.com translates as ‘law.com’ in Chinese (and Japanese?). It is definitely one of the top keywords in Chinese in a great niche, with great development potential. Will be interesting to see what happens with this domain, and hopefully it does not just [...]
The dispute was over a French IDN: matériel.net translating as equipment in English.
The Complainant is a French company who had operated a French-language website at “www.materiel.net” through which it sells computers, computer peripherals, and other electronics products. The Complainant owns French national trademark number 01 3 086 049 for the mark MATERIEL.NET, which was registered [...]
Disappointingly IDNs in .com and .net are still blacklisted in Firefox 3.
To enable IDNs (.com and .net – and any other extension you want) to display properly all you need to do is enter 2 simply lines.
1. First type in about:config in your address bar.
2. Left click > New > Boolean
3. For the preference name [...]
After months of testing, Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) is available for download from Mozilla. With its new Gekko 1.9 engine, the browser rocks, rendering pages faster and uses fewer system resources overall. As with any new browser, some add-ons created for Firefox 2 may not work, but give them time. Firefox 3 touts [...]