Internationalised domain names may launch in 2009
News Internationalised domain names could launch by early 2009, following the formulation of policies to better manage ambiguities, according to an industry expert. Chung, also the vice chair for the Internet Society in Hong Kong, pointed out, however...
[April 10, 2008, 8:30]
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]
ICANN to fast track internationalised domain names
News ICANN, the worldwide not-for-profit organisation that regulates the internet's domain name system (DNS) has launched its campaign to provide internationalised ccTLDs — those that don't use Latin characters — as soon as possible with the help of...
[November 15, 2007, 9:44]
Egypt bids for first Arabic top-level domain
News The Egyptian government on Monday announced it had applied for an Internationalised Domain Name (IDN) from Icann, the internet naming co-ordinator. Icann said in the statement that, following its opening of applications for internationalised top...
[November 17, 2009, 15:22]
Nominet consults on international domain names
News Nominet, the organisation that runs the .co.uk domain, wants to know what you think about internationalised domain names containing foreign characters. On Monday Nominet launched a consultation paper to canvass opinion on expanding the domain name...
[June 7, 2005, 14:40]
New ICANN head promises greater openness
News Perhaps the biggest problem facing ICANN is the interoperability of internationalised domain names -- particularly domain names with non-Roman characters, according to Twomey. Twomey denied recent reports that he is in favour of governments taking...
[March 20, 2003, 10:58]
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. The test was designed to establish whether the use of encoded internationalised characters would "have any...
[March 9, 2007, 16:47]
Opera fixes IDN 'vulnerability'
News The Internationalised Domain Names (IDN) vulnerability, which affects non-Microsoft browsers such as Opera, Apple's Safari and Firefox, could help phishers create legitimate-looking Web sites. The problem arose because certain browsers support a...
[February 28, 2005, 8:20]
Phishing flaw found - but not in IE
News Called Internationalised Domain Names, the standard allows companies to register domain names that appear to be the same in different languages. There are now many ways to display any domain name on a browser, as there are a huge number of...
[February 8, 2005, 8:40]
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 fast-track process, which was approved at the end of an Icann conference in...
[October 30, 2009, 16:10]
It’s all Greek, Persian, Tamil and Cyrillic Russian to me!
Blog Web users across the planet can now play around with their name in their own language (i.e.not English or other “Western-style” languages that use the same Latin alphabet that I am using to write this blog) thanks to the fact that the Internet...
[October 20, 2007, 17:51]
What’s in a domain name?
Blog The top-level domain arena, of course this is the part of the domain name that comes after the last dot, could soon new hundreds of new internationalised options introduced. Bringing in new domain names is all about satisfying competition from the...
[August 13, 2007, 23:04]
Which regulations would apply for .SEX or .APPLE registrations? ANY ?!?!
Talkback Would apple farmers perhaps have to buy Apple computers to register a .apple domain name? Who would regulate the information shared on .APPLE, .SEX or any other top-level domain? I find this a *VERY* disconcerting proposal -- especially because the...
[June 25, 2008, 9:21]
