IDN News

5 more IDN ccTLD approved by ICANN

IDN News — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:20:02 +0000

Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) continue to roll out, making it easier for everyone to use the Internet. In its meeting August 5th, ICANN’s Board of Directors approved five more countries/territories to use their national scripts in the last portion of Internet address names. Country ccTLD Script IDN ccTLD Sri Lanka .LK Sinhalese Tamil ලංකා இலங்கை [...]

“.中国” Now Accessible From Outside China

IDN News — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:34:04 +0000

CNNIC has yesterday announced that “.中国” country-code Top-Level-Domain is now ready and accessible from outside China. One example website is CNNIC’s URL in Chinese:　http://中国互联网络信息中心.中国/ as well as 新浪．中国 IDN stands for Internationalised Domain Name, and refers to any domain names that contains non ASCII character. ICANN’s IDN ccTLD Fast track process aims to introduce country [...]

РФ.com sold for $60 000

IDN News — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:28:53 +0000

Last week DnJournal reported рф.com cyrillic IDN sold for $60k in private deal. DNJournal: The #2 domain was a big IDN sale. рф.com was sold by Bruce Caley for $60,000 in a private transaction. The interest in this domain stems from the fact that .рф is the new Russian language (Cyrillic) IDN TLD using the [...]

Sri Lanka and Thailand join ranks of countries getting their own ccTLD in their own language.

IDN News — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:33:37 +0000

ICANN has delegated five more internationalized domain names for top level country code domain names. Yesterday the ICANN board approved a resolution delegating two top level domains for Sri Lanka and one for Thailand: Delegation of IDN ccTLDs: 1. Sri Lanka Whereas, Sri Lanka is a country currently listed in the ISO 3166-1 standard. Whereas, [...]

Dubai eGovernment launches Dubai.emarat as Arabic Internet domain of official Dubai Government portal

IDN News — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:54:29 +0000

Dubai eGovernment has recently announced the launch of دبي.امارات )Dubai.emarat(, which will be the Arabic Internet domain of the official portal of Dubai Government and corresponds to the Latin domain dubai.ae, .امارات)), the UAE’s domain name in Arabic. This initiative will for the first time allow Arab users to use the Arabic web address of [...]

Bulgaria to file ICANN reconsideration appeal over rejected IDN ccTLD

IDN News — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:39:20 +0000

Bulgaria is to appeal ICANN’s rejection of .бг, the Cyrillic version of its existing country code top-level domain, .bg. Technology minister Alexander Tsvetkov said that the Bulgarian government will file a reconsideration request with ICANN, according to a DarikNews.bg interview. The requested IDN ccTLD .бг was rejected because it looks quite a bit like Brazil’s [...]

ICANN Snubs Bulgaria’s Cyrillic Internet Domain Name

IDN News — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:08:15 +0000

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has turned down Bulgaria’s proposal for a domain name in Cyrillic with a “бг” suffix. Bulgaria’s Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications said it has been informed about the decision late on Tuesday with a letter, which cites the similarity with Brazil’s domain name with [...]

ICANN Approves Chinese IDN

IDN News — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:07:34 +0000

Brussels, Belgium… 25 June 2010… Millions of Chinese language users will soon be able to access the Internet using Chinese script following a decision today by ICANN’s Board of Directors to approve a set of Chinese language internationalized domain names. “This approval is a significant change for Chinese language users worldwide,” said Rod Beckstrom, President [...]

Should an IDN be part of your strategy?

IDN News — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:23:43 +0000

If your company reaches, or plans to reach, non-Latin script language countries, then perhaps you should think of registering an International Domain Name. The first four completely non-Latin top-level domains went live in May in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Russia (More information). It means that now, a website where the content [...]

The Ruler of Dubai Launches First Website with Arabic IDN

IDN News — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:23:28 +0000

The ruler of Dubai has made use of the establishment of non-Latin characters in domain names. محمد-بن-راشد.امارات Dubai leader Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid has become the first Arab leader to take advantage of the introduction of non-Latin characters in the titles of web addresses, which became available earlier this month. Following the growing use of [...]