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 [...]
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 [...]
Great to see the important of IDNs recognized by a major international body, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), and their work towards the successful planning, implementation, and bringing awareness of them. In the following post: ICANN approves the introduction of internationalized domain names, UNESCO discuss their involvement to date with IDNs and [...]
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 [...]
One of the main IDN questions asked by end-users in the last few months, and that have been discussed during the ICANN Paris meeting in the recent week is as follows:
“If I have registered <domainname>.tld, then how will you ensure that I am also the registrant of <domainname>.<idn-tld>, for all languages.”
The question shows that there [...]
As you may know by now ICANN has launched an IDN wiki, with fully localized addresses, which is managed by a GREAT wiki team (consultants to ICANN) and a GREAT group of moderators that have volunteered to assist is supporting the various languages that the wiki currently is enabled in.
Is it possible to add new [...]