This year's TLDCON will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia on September 7th and 8th. As with previous editions, the agenda will feature a mix of both technical, legal and marketing sessions. The current agenda lists the following sessions: IDN updates Legislative aspects of domain name registration Special ICANN section Marketing of IDN e-mail and new challenges … [Read more...] about TLDCON 2016 Registration Open
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IEDR Opens Public Consultation On IDN Domains
IEDR has launched a public consultation on the introduction of IDN domains in the .ie name space. The consultation period runs from February 21st, 2016, until March 21st, 2016. Up until now only Latin characters have been permitted in .ie domain names, even though one of Ireland's official languages is Irish (gaelic) which uses accented characters. The "fada" is used in … [Read more...] about IEDR Opens Public Consultation On IDN Domains
EURid Gets .ею (Cyrillic for .eu)
EURid, who run the .eu registry, have finally been delegated .ею (Cyrillic for .eu). Punycode xn--e1a4c. One of the things that EURid is chartered to do under its contract to the European Commission was to get the extension in scripts other than Latin. EURid used ICANN's IDN ccTLD "Fast Track" process, though whether the process is truly "fast" or not is debatable, as it … [Read more...] about EURid Gets .ею (Cyrillic for .eu)
Gmail Now Supports IDN Email
If your first language isn't English and you don't use the Latin character set you can and will run into barriers. While IDN domain names ie. domain names where either the left of the dot, the right of the dot or the entire string is in characters other than Latin ones, do exist and have existed for a number of years not all services work well with them. This video that … [Read more...] about Gmail Now Supports IDN Email
Belgian Country Code Now Supports IDN
Earlier this week dns.be launched IDNs (internationalised domain names). The Belgian registry opted to support the accented characters for Dutch, French and German. In so doing they've also ended up providing support for other European languages, such as Swedish, Finnish and Danish. The characters supported are … [Read more...] about Belgian Country Code Now Supports IDN
CIRA Goes Large on Marketing And PR For Launch of French Language IDN
CIRA, the registry operator for the Canadian ccTLD .ca, is raising its profile at the moment. They've taken over the frontpage of La Presse today, though it's not viewable form outside Canada: Why are they doing this? Very simply it's all related back to the launch of IDNs in .ca in order to support French language characters. It is now possible for French .CA … [Read more...] about CIRA Goes Large on Marketing And PR For Launch of French Language IDN
CNNIC To Implement Alternative WHOIS
CNNIC, the .cn registry, are to implement an alternative to traditional whois. According to an announcement by ICANN's Kurt Pritz, the Chinese organisation will be implementing a "RESTful" Whois server implementation. This is based on ongoing work within the IETF in the rather oddly named "weirds" project. Of course "weirds" is actually an acronym for: "Web Extensible … [Read more...] about CNNIC To Implement Alternative WHOIS
George Sadowsky’s Explanation of His No Vote
George Sadowsky voted against the launch of new TLDs in last Monday's ICANN board meeting. I'd been meaning to re-read the transcript, as I found a lot of what he said was very well thought out and logical. Here it is: >>GEORGE SADOWSKY: Thank you, Peter. This is one of the most important votes in which I will participate within ICANN. I have agonized over it, and … [Read more...] about George Sadowsky’s Explanation of His No Vote
IDN Scaremongering – Mashable and Times Online Screw Up
IDNs might be a slightly "hot" topic at the moment following on from ICANN's launch of the IDN cctld program recently.However, IDNs are NOT a new topic.Far from it.They've been around for quite some time.Unfortunately neither The Times Online or Mashable seem to have done any homework. Considering the amount of content available on IDNs that has been researched and actually … [Read more...] about IDN Scaremongering – Mashable and Times Online Screw Up
DotMobi IDN To Launch October 29th
I mentioned that dotMobi were planning to launch IDNs some time ago, but now they've announced a launch date. By the looks of things dotMobi are planning for a nice media coup, as the launch of the sunrise period for IDN coincides with the ICANN meeting in Asia on October 19th 2009 at 4am UTC.Unlike other IDN launches, dotMobi are being very specific about the launch and are … [Read more...] about DotMobi IDN To Launch October 29th