The IDN aftermarket continues to grow quickly, with sales picking up on IDN forums in recent days.
Sales yesterday included:
Russian GEO – Сочи.com (Sochi) – SOLD for $21,555USD on idnchannel.com
- Punycode: xn--h1aliz.com
- Russian resort city, with population: 402,043 (2007), set to host the XXII Olympic Winter Games in 2014.
- Official olympics website http://sochi2014.com/
Chinese PREMIUM – 公司.net [...]
Chinese market definetely seems to heating up with alot of healthy sales for expired .cn IDN domain names. Sales are taking place at ebname.cn and 66.cn, who are operating under contract from CNNIC for dropping .cn IDNs.
Sales from the last month include:
机票.cn (plane tickets) – US$7,159
网.cn (net/network) – US$7034
二手车.cn (second-hand cars) – US$5,704
高尔夫.cn (golf) – [...]
By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch
The EAI working group of the IETF has finished (part of) its work on the interationalization of email addresses. This, together with Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) will make it possible to send email messages to non-7 bit ASCII addresses e.g. måtte@københavn.dk or 中国@中国.中国 .
There are 3 RFCs, covering changes to the SMTP protocol, e-mail message [...]
As Local Language Domain Names Gain Traction, VeriSign Helps Internet Sites Everywhere Reassure Users with World’s Most Recognized Trust Mark
Seven of every 10 people in the world don’t speak English, but that isn’t keeping them from using the Internet. Now, domain name registrants and Web site operators not only can reach users in their own [...]