International domain names succeed in testing
News Internationalised domain names (IDNs) have moved a step closer to reality, after ICANN announced it had successfully completed testing. However, many countries whose languages use other characters — such as Chinese or Arabic — have long been...
[March 9, 2007, 16:47]
Icann gives green light to non-Latin URLs
News The body, which oversees the internet domain name system, announced on Friday that it has voted to institute a fast-track process for internationalised domains (IDNs). The first countries that participate will not only be providing valuable...
[October 30, 2009, 16:10]
Internationalised domain names may launch in 2009
News Edmon Chung, chief executive of DotAsia, told ZDNet Asia on Wednesday that he is involved in a number of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) working groups that are striving to introduce IDNs and it is "possible" that this...
[April 10, 2008, 8:30]
Mozilla testing point updates
News The decision for new point releases was made after the disclosure last week of a problem in the way the browsers handle International Domain Names (IDNs), Web addresses that use international characters.
[September 15, 2005, 9:40]
Firefox flaw gets temporary fix
News The problem has to do with the way the Firefox and Mozilla browsers handle International Domain Names, or IDNs, said Mike Schroepfer, director of engineering at Mozilla. IDNs are domain names that use local language characters.
[September 12, 2005, 9:40]
ICANN to fast track internationalised domain names
News A lot of hard work has been done on IDNs [internationalised domain names] — and there is a technical evaluation of their impact on the root zone going on as we speak," said ccNSO chairman Chris Disspain in a statement.
[November 15, 2007, 9:44]
Egypt bids for first Arabic top-level domain
News Tina Dam, Icann's senior director of IDNs, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that Icann had received applications from six countries. When Icann announced at the end of October that IDNs were being made available, security experts said that spoofing of URLs...
[November 17, 2009, 15:22]
ICANN wants independence from US govt
Blog Comment ICANN needs to come to terms with and address that it will fail to deliver IDNs in a manner that would satisfy the people of the international community unless it recognizes that languages and cultures are fundamental to IDNs as fundamental as...
[March 3, 2008, 23:37]
EU gets internationalised domain names
News The introduction of internationalised domain names (IDNs) means domain names can include accented accented characters such as 'ç', commonly used in Portuguese and Catalan, and 'ñ', as used in Spanish and Basque, as well as names written in Greek...
[December 14, 2009, 15:37]
It’s all Greek, Persian, Tamil and Cyrillic Russian to me!
Blog You can also find it here http://idn.icann.org The 11 evaluation wikis will remain online until IDNs are fully implemented and the first top-level domain is introduced in the evaluation language. The full introduction of IDNs will mean that people...
[October 20, 2007, 17:51]
Web domain name language overhaul coming soon
News The first Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, could go live by mid-2010. A month after it formally severed all ties to the US government, internet regulation body Icann said it is finalising plans to introduce web domain addresses using non...
[October 27, 2009, 8:05]
IT journalists to stand for ICANN board
News I believe that with ICANN now widely accepted as the technical authority for the Internet, it should provide a clear voice to the world from that technical perspective - there is certainly no shortage of topics that could do with it: IDNs, URIs...
[July 28, 2006, 18:30]
Hackers pick at Firefox holes
News IDNs are domain names that use local language characters. The vulnerability, which could let attackers secretly run malicious software on PCs, was disclosed on Thursday by security researcher Tom Ferris.
[September 14, 2005, 7:25]
