Pinyin, Romaji and Romanized Domains could get Priority to Register in IDN
December 15, 2009 — Hong Kong — Following the announcement on November 18, 2009 (http://www.idn.asia/main/2009/11/dotasia-to-launch-internationalized-domain-names-idn-in-2010.html), DotAsia today published a draft of the IDN launch policies for discussion. The policies will be finalized after the Kuala Lumpur APRICOT meetings in February 2010, where [...]
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 – 31 Dec 2009
Phase #2: Trademark Owners Applications 7 Jan 2010 – 18 Feb 2010
Sunrise: 25 Mar 2010 – 6 May 2010
General Launch: 10 June 2010 onwards
Registrations can be made with [...]
An advertisement using a Chinese IDN: 沐舒坦.cn (translates to Ambroxol) recently seen on Sina.com. Advertisement is for pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim.
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.