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) – [...]
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 [...]
银行.com, Chinese for bank.com just sold on snapnames for $21,022.
A bargain for the buyer, and great news for Chinese IDNs especially .com’s which have recently seen a number of decent sale prices.
Great to see the important of IDNs recognized by a major international body, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), and their work towards the successful planning, implementation, and bringing awareness of them. In the following post: ICANN approves the introduction of internationalized domain names, UNESCO discuss their involvement to date with IDNs and [...]
Looks like the IDN market is heating up with one domain sale of $xxx,xxx and another deal of $x,xxx,xxx. While full details have not yet been released, the buyer has let it known that the sales were all for Russian IDNs.
Also reported a Chinese seller sold a .cn for a good $xx,xxx to a business [...]
Recently we teamed up with the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) to express our concern to ICANN that the rights and needs of end-users are taken into account in the discussion of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). Namely, IDNs are to be seen as a technical measure to allow for multi-lingual direction navigation of the Internet and [...]