Online advertisement using a Chinese IDN
An advertisement using a Chinese IDN: 沐舒坦.cn (translates to Ambroxol) recently seen on Sina.com. Advertisement is for pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim.
Archive for September, 2009
IDN.eu available from December 10th
EURid has announced that .eu will support internationalised domain names (IDNs) starting from the 10th of December.
Marc Van Wesemael, EURid General Manager commented “IDNs are particularly important for .eu”
“EURid supports all twenty-three official EU languages, and our employees come from twenty of the twenty-seven Member States. Supporting the use and growth of Internationalised Domain Names [...]
Status Update: IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Implementation
ICANN is pleased to provide the following status report on the progress of implementation of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process. Overall, the implementation is tracking to the project plan and it is planned to be submitted to the Board during the ICANN meeting in Korea, Seoul, 26-30 October 2009. Discussion of the implementation plan [...]
Bulgaria Internet Company Launches Domain Names in Cyrillic
The company that manages domain registrations .bg has announced that it is now possible to register .bg websites in the Cyrillic alphabet.
Register.BG stated Monday that from today any company wanting a .bg registration will be able to register a Cyrillic Internet address.
The only requirement for those who want to have a Cyrillic domain name in [...]
IDNs reach nearly 10% usage in China
iResearch Consulting a leading Chinese internet research company, has released an interesting report on domain usage in China for 2008. The report portrays IDNs in a somewhat negative light, stating that English language domains are still greatly favoured over IDNs and IDNs have so far failed to make a impact. It is of course, pretty [...]