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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The largest recorded sale of an IDN for the month of 2009 was for the domain Nü.com (xn--n-eha.com), a turkish or danish word meaning either nude or now, which exchanged hands in a private sale for $14,200.
“China has solved most of the technical problems raised by Chinese-language domain names and is in the process of deploying them” – Zhang Jian (director of the international business department) at China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).
Zhang Jian states that within two years, the agency expects all mainstream Web sites in the country will have [...]
Probably the first country to adopt IDNs and widely use them is Germany. The Germans have a large number of IDNs registered and in use, and there is an active market already for IDNs in both there country’s ccTLD .de and other major TLDs such as .com, .net and .biz.
Today DENIC, the manager of the [...]
Afilias will work with the CDNC to coordinate and collaborate with other registries to reach Chinese language Internet users with Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) technology.
BEIJING–(BUSINESS WIRE) – Aug. 06, 2009– Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has joined the Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC).
Afilias will work with the CDNC [...]