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		<title>Squatting high on Chinese IDNS</title>
		<link>http://www.idnfocus.com/2012/03/squatting-high-on-chinese-idns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the big push in promotion for the use of Chinese domain names (especially by local governments), many companies that have found out late about IDNs are finding that their chosen domain names are already taken, and in many cases held by cyber-squatters.
According to the statistics of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Blog&#8221;.com in Russian sold for $3400</title>
		<link>http://www.idnfocus.com/2012/03/blog-com-in-russian-sold-for-3400/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 02:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week saw Блог.com (punycode: xn--90aexm.com), translated as blog/s in Russian, sold on idnforums.com for the price of $3,400.
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		<title>How to enable IDNs in firefox</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tired of seeing punycode in the address bar of firefox. Many people have complained of firefox&#8217;s policy of a IDN whitelist, below is the information from mozilla on how to whitelist an domain extension, so all domains of this extension will show IDNs instead of the punycode.
This is a list of top-level domains (TLDs) for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are IDNs?</title>
		<link>http://www.idnfocus.com/2010/01/what-are-idns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t know what IDNs are? Don&#8217;t see why international domain names are needed?
Just saw this great video produced by ICANN for the first time. A great introduction by ICANN as to what IDNs are and why they are so important.

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		<title>ICANN Approves the String .امارات as the Official Arabic Top Level Domain for UAE</title>
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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>
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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>
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		<comments>http://www.idnfocus.com/2010/01/bulgaria-battles-brazil-for-cyrillic-bg-domain-name/#comments</comments>
		<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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