Results tagged with: IDN

VeriSign Awarded Patent for Internationalized Domain Names

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awarded U.S. patent number 7,774,432 to Verisign for registering and displaying multilingual domain names Internationalized domain names (commonly called IDNs) refer to domain names that contain one or more non-ASCII characters. The IDN process allows Registries to register …
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China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong Get ccTLD’s

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ICANN has now approved the delegation of two Chinese-character ccTLD’s (country code top level domains) to China. Additionally, they approved two to Taiwan, and one to Hong Kong. The requests for the three countries ccTLD’s were approved to move forward in April.

According to ICANN’s …
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