TUNISIAONLINENEWS- With a view to making the internet more accessible around the world, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has opened the domain application process to non-Latin characters for website addresses with its inclusion of internationalised domain names. Following Egypt’s application for a domain name in Arabic on Monday, Tunisia has also […]
An IDNForums.com member recently asked me a good question and I took the time to answer it. I thought that I would share my answer here, although I have of course removed the specifics from the situation and changed some facts to keep things confidential. Accordingly, the domains etc. referred to below are made-up for […]
Figures are current as of today. Total # of IDNs registered in .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz: 964,894 By extension: .com – 699,737 (72.51%) .net – 197,037 (20.42%) .org – 18,736 (1.94%) .info – 25,851 (2.68%) .biz – 23,533 (2.44%) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .com & .net figures for language (These are not accurate so allow ±% and […]
Priority for Existing Alphanumeric .Asia Domain Registrants for Corresponding IDNs Considered 18 November 2009 – Hong Kong – DotAsia announces plan to release multilingual domain (IDN – Internationalized Domain Name) registrations in 2010. Following announcements by ICANN to approve the use of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), DotAsia Organisation, the global top-level domain authority for “.Asia”, […]
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Transport, IT, and Communications is starting a procedure for registering Internet domains in Cyrillic. This has been announced Sunday by the Transport Minister, Alexander Tsvetkov. Thus, Bulgaria is following up on the motion of the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to introduce Internet domains in non-Latin alphabets. Bulgaria was […]
International Internet regulator ICANN is accepting applications for non-Latin alphabet Web addresses this week. Media outlets around the globe weigh in on if the breakthrough will benefit the cyberspace.
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) today will apply for the top-level Chinese domain name “Zhongguo”(written in pinyin), to key Internet oversight agency the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), www.people.com.cn reported. Global netizens may be able to log on to the Internet with the new domain at the beginning of next year […]
Egypt will open the world’s first Arabic language internet domain, its communications minister has said. Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be “.masr” written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as “.Egypt”. “It is a great moment for us… The internet now speaks Arabic,” Mr Kamel said. Last month, internet regulator Icann voted […]
November 9, 2009 The Kremlin, Moscow MINISTER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS IGOR SHCHEGOLEV: I am ready to brief you on the implementation of your instruction regarding promotion of the Russian language in the Internet address system. PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Yes, as I recall, active discussion of this matter began a year […]
Nov 11, 2009 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) — EuroDNS announces the opening of a pre-registration period for .eu Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), based on a first-come, first-served model. Companies and individuals based in the European Union have now the opportunity to register domain names that contain non-Latin characters under the .eu domain. Xavier Buck, CEO of […]
