OK a post to clear up lot of misunderstanding i’ve been regarding on Verisign’s choices for Chinese .com (.点看) and .net (.大拿). 1) As with all the other strings Versign has applied for in IDN, they all are transliterations of .com or .net. They have not applied for .company or .network in any other languages, [...] Continue reading →

Historic day for the internet today with the announcement of 1930 applications for new gTLDs. Among these 116 were IDN applications. Some notable numbers were 73 applications for Chinese IDN gTLDs, 15 Arabic, 9 Japanese  and only 3 Korean gTLDs. Verisign applied for the 12 IDNs in different “transliteration” of COM (Thai, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, [...] Continue reading →

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 [...] Continue reading →

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. [...] Continue reading →

Tired of seeing punycode in the address bar of firefox. Many people have complained of firefox’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) [...] Continue reading →

Don’t know what IDNs are? Don’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. [...] Continue reading →

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 [...] Continue reading →