Apple has released Safari 4.0.3 to fix at least six security vulnerabilities that put Mac and Windows users at risk of hacker attacks.
The update is considered highly-critical and should be immediately applied on both Windows and Mac systems because of the risk of information disclosure, phishing and remote code execution attacks.
The change affecting IDNs is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) – [...]