Archive for July 15, 2008

ICANN: Comments Encouraged on the Final Report of IDNC Working Group on ccTLD “Fast Track” Mechanisms

Posted on July 15, 2008, 4:50 pm, by ICANN Announcements, under ICANN, ICANN Announcements.

Final Report of IDNC WG [PDF, 100K] Public Comment Forum Open Through 15 August 2008 Summary: The IDNC Working Group (IDNC WG) has developed its Final Report on feasible methods that would enable the timely and efficient (“fast track”) introduction of a limited number of non-contentious IDN ccTLDs, while an overall long-term IDN ccTLD policy [...]

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Chinese, Arabic and Hindi domain names to go up for sale – finally!

Posted on July 15, 2008, 12:05 am, by IDN News, under Blogs.

by Melissa Chang At its recent meeting in Paris, ICANN – the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names, the organization that controls the assignment of domain names – made a number of announcements. The one that received the most press was the revelation that there would be new generic top level domains (gTLDs) available [...]

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