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 [...]
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) – [...]
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 [...]
Looks like the IDN market is heating up with one domain sale of $xxx,xxx and another deal of $x,xxx,xxx. While full details have not yet been released, the buyer has let it known that the sales were all for Russian IDNs.
Also reported a Chinese seller sold a .cn for a good $xx,xxx to a business [...]
Recently we teamed up with the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) to express our concern to ICANN that the rights and needs of end-users are taken into account in the discussion of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). Namely, IDNs are to be seen as a technical measure to allow for multi-lingual direction navigation of the Internet and [...]
“.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 [...]