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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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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.
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ICANN’s Board of Directors approved the delegation of four new internationalized domain name ccTLDs last Thursday. These approved country code domains include Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt.
An internationalized domain name (IDN) refers to domain names that contain non ASCII characters. These domain names offer the ability …
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As we mentioned in January, Telnic’s plan to offer internationalized .tel domain names was approved by ICANN. The Registry has now announced that they will launch their IDN registration in 16 languages on June 15th.
The 16 languages include:
ICANN announced that they plan to speed up the development of internationalized domain names. Currently, testing of the system is going on. Officials said the next step would be to develop new top-level domains in the characters of the local language. The immediate goal is to get those ccTLDs in …
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Internationalized domain names are closer to becoming a reality after ICANN’s recent announcement that the organization has successfully completed their testing of the names. The tests were designed to find out if the use of encoded internationalized characters would “have any impact on the operations of the root name servers”.…
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VeriSign is under fire for their planned changes to internationalized domain names. The Registry previously returned an error when an IDN that ends in .com or .net is accessed; however, the company now plans to return a positive message offering the visitor a free VeriSign software plug-in for displaying IDNs.…
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International Internet users want domain names in their native languages, but the lack of standards make widespread usage of these internationalized domain names (IDN’s) difficult. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the group in charge of figuring out how internationalized domain names will work across the Internet’s current structure. …
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Intellectual property claims could slow down the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) efforts to develop a “common scheme for supporting foreign-language domain names across the Internet.” The IETF is under tremendous pressure from overseas Internet users who want domain names in their native languages. Creating these protocols for internationalized domain …
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