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 [...]
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 [...]
Sun awarded patent to detect spoofed domains and send web users to intended domain name.
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) has been awarded U.S. patent 7,559,085 for “Detection for deceptively similar domain names”. The patent was filed in 2004 and awarded today.
The system includes a number of methods for detecting that someone is accessing a spoofed domain [...]
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 [...]
By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch
The EAI working group of the IETF has finished (part of) its work on the interationalization of email addresses. This, together with Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) will make it possible to send email messages to non-7 bit ASCII addresses e.g. måtte@københavn.dk or 中国@中国.中国 .
There are 3 RFCs, covering changes to the SMTP protocol, e-mail message [...]
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 [...]
“.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 [...]