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		<title>ICANN Approves the String .امارات as the Official Arabic Top Level Domain for UAE</title>
		<link>http://www.idnfocus.com/2010/01/icann-approves-the-string-%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa-as-the-official-arabic-top-level-domain-for-uae/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) has yet to register another millstone with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN’s) approval of the string (.emarat) (.امارات) as the official Arabic top level domain for the United Arab Emirates. The announcement made by ICANN came after TRA announced the use of the Arabic top level domain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese domain names (IDN.cn) could number 1 million by the end of 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2010: Prediction for the coming year &#8211; Chinese domain industry
A list of 10 predictions made by Chinese netizens about what 2010 holds for the Chinese domaining industry.

1, Total .cn domain name registrations will likely reduce in numbers by year-end to less than 10 million
2, Chinese domain names &#8220;.中国&#8221; registrations is expected to exceed one million
By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IDN .Tel Domain Names Coming Soon</title>
		<link>http://www.idnfocus.com/2010/01/idn-tel-domain-names-coming-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved Telnic’s request to offer internationalized domain names on .tel. .Tel registry Telnic made the request to offer IDNs on December 2, and ICANN Chief gTLD Registry Liaison Craig Schwartz notified Telnic of approval today via letter.
By offering IDN domain names, users will be able to register [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bulgaria &#8216;battles&#8217; Brazil for Cyrillic BG domain name</title>
		<link>http://www.idnfocus.com/2010/01/bulgaria-battles-brazil-for-cyrillic-bg-domain-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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The characters &#8220;.bg&#8221; and &#8220;.bgr&#8221; are the most popular for Bulgaria&#8217;s national internet address in Cyrillic, according to the results of an online poll conducted by the Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications (MTITC) in December 2009.
Parvan Rusinov, Deputy Minister, has announced the poll results on Monday. He said that the answers would need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNS-LU announces the opening of IDNs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of February 1st 2010 registration of domain names with special characters in them, like for example a letter with an accent, called Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) .lu will be possible. Acceptable special caracters are those communly used in Luxembourgish, German and French languages.
There will be a two months sunrise period between February 1st 2010 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investors in foreign domain names quickly multiply</title>
		<link>http://www.idnfocus.com/2010/01/investors-in-foreign-domain-names-quickly-multiply/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Domain name investors, having exhausted most of the possibilities in the U.S. are now heading overseas to stake their claims to as-yet unused domain categories. And language is not a barrier. With the Internet a truly global tool, not only are domain names in Japanese characters (i.e. [Japanese].com) now available to register, but according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HKIRC to launch ‘.香港’ full Chinese domain name in 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.idnfocus.com/2009/12/hkirc-to-launch-%e2%80%98-%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e2%80%99-full-chinese-domain-name-in-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Ltd (HKIRC) announced today that ‘.香港’ registrations will be offered free to all ‘.hk’ customers in the second half of 2010 with the aim of helping them develop their sites with full Chinese domain names. This is to increase the popularity of Chinese domain names and to maximize benefits to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SGNIC announces the launch of Chinese Domain Names</title>
		<link>http://www.idnfocus.com/2009/11/sgnic-announces-the-launch-of-chinese-domain-names/</link>
		<comments>http://www.idnfocus.com/2009/11/sgnic-announces-the-launch-of-chinese-domain-names/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 3 November 2009, SGNIC announced the launch of Chinese Domain Names (CDNs). The launch will take place in the following phases:
Phase #1: Government Applications	23 Nov 2009 &#8211; 31 Dec 2009
Phase #2: Trademark Owners Applications	7 Jan 2010 &#8211; 18 Feb 2010
Sunrise:	25 Mar 2010 &#8211; 6 May 2010
General Launch:	10 June 2010 onwards
Registrations can be made with [...]]]></description>
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