Over the past few weeks our technical team have been working on integrating IDN domain names. IDN domains are “internationalised” so with an IDN domain name you can put in the accents like the “fada” in Irish, or the Spanish N (Ñ) directly into the domain name.So, for example, I’ve registered Mícheál.eu, while other members [...]
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Speaking On New TLDs In Serbia
I’ll be speaking on a panel about new TLDs at the 4th International Conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe next week in Serbia. The conference will bring together domain industry experts from all over Europe for two days with a fairly packed agenda. Topics that are on the agenda [...]
New TLDs Explained In Plain English
ICANN has released a video which explains in simple terms what new TLDs are all about and what is going to happen: Related articles ICANN Board Votes in Favour of New TLDs (internetnews.me) Blacknight Welcomes the Approval of New gTLDs (blacknight.com) George Sadowsky’s Explanation of His No Vote (internetnews.me)
The Web Is Now Truly International!
We’ve mentioned IDN domains a few times in the past. To jog your memory, an IDN domain uses non-ASCII characters ie. an IDN domain name could use pretty much any character set – not just the “standard” Latin one. So if you were Russian you would probably want to type in domain names in your [...]
Domain Pulse Switzerland – See You There!
We’ll be attending the upcoming DomainPulse event in Lucerne, Switzerland. DomainPulse is the most important event for the German speaking domain industry, and is held each year in either Germany, Austria or Switzerland. This year’s agenda includes topics such as IDNs, DNSSEC, legal issues and internet governance. It’s also one of the few domain industry [...]
Internationalised Country Code Domains Spark Interest
IDN domains (internationalised domain names) . It’s a really horrible acronym, but once you get past that, the actual concept is a lot more interesting. If you follow the technology press you’ll have seen quite a lot of coverage of IDN domains in the last few weeks, as ICANN announced during the recent Seoul meeting [...]
ICANN Seoul Hangover
I’m just back from the ICANN meeting in Seoul, South Korea. I had planned on posting with updates during the week, but, as you can see, that didn’t happen. Why? Simply put – it was an incredibly busy meeting, both in general and for me personally. I’m now back in Ireland struggling to get over [...]
Congratulations ICANN
As an internet business it is only natural that we would be concerned with the development of policies that affect our sector. Earlier today ICANN‘s agreement with the US government came to an end. It has been replaced with a new document which paves the way for the future – a bright future which is [...]
Putting The Accent Back Into Domains – IDNs In EU
I’ve mentioned IDNs (Internationalised Domain Names) a few times in the past and they were one of the topics on the agenda in Slovenia earlier this week as well. Eurid, the registry operator for .eu, has now announced that it will be launching support for IDNs on 10 December 2009. What does that mean? Simply [...]
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