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 [...]
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 [...]
Rod Beckstrom was officially appointed as ICANN’s new CEO during the ICANN board meeting in Sydney, Australia in June 2009.
As part of his vision for ICANN, Beckstrom has highlighted 4 areas of primary focus including Internationalization of Domain Names, efforts in the deployment of DNSSEC, and the introduction of new generic Top-Level Domains.
On IDNs he [...]
Sun awarded patent to detect spoofed domains and send web users to intended domain name.
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) has been awarded U.S. patent 7,559,085 for “Detection for deceptively similar domain names”. The patent was filed in 2004 and awarded today.
The system includes a number of methods for detecting that someone is accessing a spoofed domain [...]
Growth in demand for domain names has been hit by the recession, research by internet infrastructure provider VeriSign has revealed.
The number of domain names registered per quarter in 2008 slowed to 11.9 million, compared with 12.2 million in 2007.
But the internet is still growing rapidly, said Tobias Wann, director of VeriSign’s domain names services
The internet [...]
A post at Idnforums shows that IDNs are fairly well represented in their top 1,000,000 list.
While alexa is pretty much useless in trying to get any meaningful stats from, i still think that it positively shows that IDNs are being developed into meaningful visited sites, that are being regularly visited or searched. With browser support [...]
One of the main IDN related topics from the just-finished ICANN meeting in Cairo that I think deserves some additional attention was:
Why Compliance with IDN technical requirements are a necessity on a global scale
Overall compliance with technical standards are important for TLD registry operators in order to keep their TLD stable and secure and in [...]
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 [...]