IDNs – August Sales
The largest recorded sale of an IDN for the month of 2009 was for the domain Nü.com (xn--n-eha.com), a turkish or danish word meaning either nude or now, which exchanged hands in a private sale for $14,200.
Archive for August, 2009
IDNs in China – CNNIC forecast use of IDNs in China
“China has solved most of the technical problems raised by Chinese-language domain names and is in the process of deploying them” – Zhang Jian (director of the international business department) at China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).
Zhang Jian states that within two years, the agency expects all mainstream Web sites in the country will have [...]
461,294 .de IDNs registered
Probably the first country to adopt IDNs and widely use them is Germany. The Germans have a large number of IDNs registered and in use, and there is an active market already for IDNs in both there country’s ccTLD .de and other major TLDs such as .com, .net and .biz.
Today DENIC, the manager of the [...]
Afilias joins Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC)
Afilias will work with the CDNC to coordinate and collaborate with other registries to reach Chinese language Internet users with Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) technology.
BEIJING–(BUSINESS WIRE) – Aug. 06, 2009– Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has joined the Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC).
Afilias will work with the CDNC [...]
Apple plugs code execution, phishing holes in Safari browser
Apple has released Safari 4.0.3 to fix at least six security vulnerabilities that put Mac and Windows users at risk of hacker attacks.
The update is considered highly-critical and should be immediately applied on both Windows and Mac systems because of the risk of information disclosure, phishing and remote code execution attacks.
The change affecting IDNs is [...]
ICANN successfully kills ‘domain tasting’
ICANN has declared a solution implemented a year ago, designed to bring an end to ‘domain tasting’, has been a success and has resulted in a drop of 99.7% of domain tasting.
At its peak, the practice of speculatively registering domain names for very short periods of time (less than 5 days) saw millions of dot-com [...]
ICANN promotes IDN in Middle East
Receiving a lot of press, ICANN has been busy promoting local language domains in the middle-east. Too bad no mention of IDNs already being in existence with presently available TLDs.
“ARAB COMPANIES TO GET ARABIC INTERNET DOMAINS: Arab companies will now be able to have internet domain names in their own language, the Internet Corporation for [...]
Hong Kong Billionaire Li Ka Shing’s Companies Guilty of IDN Hijacking
A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) domain name dispute adjudication panel has found two companies owned by Hong Kong billionaire, Li Ka Shing, guilty of Attempted Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, over the domain name, 長江.com, which means YangtzeRiver.com.
Geneva, Switzerland, August 3, 2009 – A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) domain name dispute adjudication panel has [...]