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IDN.tel now available

IDN News — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:24:47 +0000

Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organization, Telnic Limited recently announced that subscribers to the new .tel service can now view and manage .tel domains in more than 11 languages online. // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ OAS_AD('Middle'); // ]]>// < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ var TFSMFlash_PRETAG=""; var TFSMFlash_POSTTAG=""; var TFSMFlash_VERSION="8"; var TFSMFlash_WMODE="window"; var TFSMFlash_OASCLICK="http://oascentral.tmcnet.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/ipcommunications.tmcnet.com/L27/172620998/Middle/TMCnet/broadvox-ip-comm-adbox/broadvox-ipcomm-march09-AdBox.html/562f7474665570623158734144746671?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.broadvox.com%2F"; var TFSMFlash_SWFCLICKVARIABLE="?clickTAG="+TFSMFlash_OASCLICK ; var TFSMFlash_SWFFILE="http://imagec14.247realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/TMCnet/broadvox-ip-comm-adbox/TMC_March09336x280_Adbox.swf/1239997313"+TFSMFlash_SWFCLICKVARIABLE; [...]

Español.info, en Sedo

Isabel Vázquez — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:28:18 +0000

Hoy Javier Florentín (Dueños.net) me ha avisado por Facebook de que uno de sus dominios está siendo subastado en Sedo (la subasta finaliza el 15 de julio). He pensado que tal vez sería interesante escribir este post porque me parece que hace ya un tiempo que no comentamos mucho sobre dominios .info y, en este caso [...]

Sun Microsystems Awarded Patent for Detecting Spoofed Domain Names

IDN News — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:23:19 +0000

Sun awarded patent to detect spoofed domains and send web users to intended domain name. Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) has been awarded U.S. patent 7,559,085 for “Detection for deceptively similar domain names”. The patent was filed in 2004 and awarded today. The system includes a number of methods for detecting that someone is accessing a spoofed domain [...]

IDN Domain Names and Registration Primer

gurucs — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:49:51 +0000

IDN, or Internalized Domain Name is a relative new addition by ICANN. It allows foreign language domains - such as Chinese, Janpanese, Spanish, Hebrew, etc. For example, McDonalds.com translated to Chinese would be 麥當勞.com So in foreign countries such as China computer users would simply type in 麥當勞.com in their browsers. It is the browser’s job to [...] No related posts.

IDN.mobi agreement signed in China! To go LIVE soon

IDN News — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:15:32 +0000

IDN.mobi has now been launched in China. 1.3 Billion people reside in China offering a great opportunity for .mobi as a domain to gain more traction with the world’s most populated country. Dot Mobi have informed ‘OKOK’ that this was just a formal signing with CATR – the China Academy of Telecommunication Research. (An internationalized domain [...]

AusRegistry International announces the successful implementation of an industry-leading IDN Registry System

IDN News — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:48:17 +0000

The introduction of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) represents one of the most significant advancements in the history of the internet. A majority of internet users today have a first language other than English and many languages utilise characters not currently available within the DNS. IDNs provide these users with the capability to navigate the internet [...]

Email Address Internationalization / Internationalized eMail Addresses (EAI/IMA)

shawnste — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:13:00 +0000

With the IDN work for Internationalized Domain Names using characters beyond ASCII, it is only natural to tackle the problem of Internationalized Internet eMail.

Some smart people have been working on an IETF working group to figure out how non-ASCII email would work, and I encourage people to take a look: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/eai-charter.html. That page has the charter, a list of drafts and RFCs that have already been produced, and links to the IMA working group mailing list.

Assuming you're an ASCII/Latin character user, imagine having to type all your URL's in Chinese, or Cyrillic (or if you know those, imagine typing everything in Klingon, eg:  ) In many cultures, that's what it's like to use the web. Some users may not be literate in Latin letters, or may have to do a lot of hunt-n-pecking. EAI should help address that problem.

How EAI/IMA Works

The basic idea of the EAI working group is to stick email in UTF-8 instead of ASCII. UTF-8 works pretty well in many systems, and many mailers already handle 8 bit encodings, so this is a pretty "simple" solution. Unfortunately email touches a lot of places, so there're a lot of protocols that need updates (eg: STMP, POP, mailto:, etc.) Additionally everyone knows that UTF-8 email can't happen instantly, so there needs to be a system for existing servers to talk to UTF-8 aware ones, which leads to a few more RFCs.

UTF8SMTP allows the servers to make decisions about the "local" part of the email address, which allows for groups to fit their own needs. The backwards compatibility means that users also need ASCII addresses, as they do today. The server would alias from one address to another so mail to @microsoft.com could map to my normal mailbox, and I'd only have one mail. Unfortunately that simple concept means that places that didn't have to worry about aliasing before may now have to consider aliases and fallback addresses. Contact lists may need to have both forms, etc.

Current Status of EAI/IMA

Currently there are several experimental RFCs, and several people have created interoperating systems that work with each other to demonstrate the feasibility of UTF8SMTP. The next step is to move towards a standards track process, which could happen "reasonably quickly". I'm optimistic that the standards will move quickly, but sometimes these things take a while.

So Who's Gonna Use It?

There are a lot of markets where ASCII doesn't work very well for various reasons. Even when people have ASCII aliases, it may seem artificial, and there may be a desire for an email that reflects them or their country. There are many ISPs in countries like Korea, China, & Japan that are very eager to be able to send email in a native script. Some governments like Russia and China are weighing in on the importance of being able to send mail and use the Internet in their script.

What's IMA Mean To Me As a Software Developer? (who cares?)

If you are a developer, then you may run into IMA addresses. Even if your app doesn't explicitly deal with mail, there may be a place for email to sneak into your app. For example, IDN and domain names don't really have much to do with Word or PowerPoint, yet they often show up in documents and presentations. I could imagine an author address in metadata, such as a photographer contact in a photo's metadata. Many apps probably will run into IMA addresses whether they realize it or not.

Anyway, I have been thinking about this space for a while and thought I'd share my observations. It's worth considering what impact IMA will have on your application (while you're at it, how's IDN behave?)

-Shawn

ICANN: Fast Track Implementation (3rd Revision)

ICANN Announcements — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:32:00 +0000

31 May 2009 Updated 4 June 2009 One more paper is being included in the Fast Track Implementation package, Cost Analysis of IDN ccTLDs: Focus on Program Development and Processing Costs [PDF, 148K]. This paper provides cost analyses of the IDN ccTLDs including the costs to process a request for a new IDN ccTLD as well [...]

40 IDNs sold on Rick Latona Auctions Live

IDN News — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:16:03 +0000

4 June 2009 10:00 AM Eastern 40 IDN’s sells as package for 8000 EUR on Rick Latona Auctions. Sale include russian asia.com, lottery.com russia.net, music.net; arabic oil.com, egypt.net; hebrew business.com, search.com full list: páginasmóviles.com Spanish mobilepages.com xn--pginasmviles-cbb2x.com teléfonosgratis.com Spanish freephones.com xn--telfonosgratis-dkb.com tonosmóviles.com Spanish mobiletones.com xn--tonosmviles-veb.com лотерея.com Russian lottery.com xn--e1aaqmlk8g.com азия.com Russian asia.com xn--80aod6g.com рубль.com Russian ruble.com xn--90aunm1c.com музыка.net Russian music.net xn--80anjg9azc.net россия.net Russian Russia.net xn--h1alffa9f.net نفط.com Arabic oil.com xn--2gbto.com مصر.net Arabic egypt.net xn--wgbh1c.net شبكة.net Arabic network.net xn--ngbc5azd.net أخبار.net Arabic america.net xn--igbicxr.net الامارات.net Arabic emirates.net/uae.net xn--mgbaaap4b0ij.net רשת.com Hebrew net.com/network.com xn--tebcd.com עסקי.com Hebrew business.com xn--eebpcv.com תוכנות.com Hebrew software.com xn--9dbaru1ce.com חפש.com Hebrew search.com xn--ceb0ap.com משחק.com Hebrew game.com xn--cebn2ag.com бесплатнаямузыка.com Russian freemusic.com xn--80aaabuovelitxqr5jqc.com онлайнфильмы.com Russian onlinemovies.com xn--80aqcgdgbde9d3dk.com diseñopaginasweb.com Spanish designwebpages.com xn--diseopaginasweb-1qb.com bajarmúsicagratis.com Spanish downloadfreemusic.com xn--bajarmsicagratis-pyb.com educaciónenlínea.com Spanish educationonline.com xn--educacinenlnea-bmb5g.com educaciónadistancia.com Spanish distanceeducation.com xn--educacinadistancia-w1b.com melodíasmóvilesgratis.com Spanish [...]

Bulgaria Looks Forward to Site Domains in Cyrillic

IDN News — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:48:11 +0000

Bulgarian residents will be able to register domain names in Cyrillic by the end of the year, the country’s foreign minister vowed. The goal was described by Foreign Minister Ivaylo Kalfin as part of the state policy, even though the press conference he gave was part of his electioneering as Socialists’ top candidate for the European [...]