By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch
Arab information technology experts have welcomed a recent development in internet governance that could allow the use of Arabic script website addresses, saying it will help to protect Arabic culture, remove the language barrier and reduce the digital and knowledge gap between the Arab …
From what is known, on September 8th the first stage of registration with Ñ, accents and Portuguese characters. This stage ends on December 16th 2008. Normally, there is always the concern and nervousness to register the domains as fast as possible so that no one else gets to it before we do, but according to [...]
The EAI working group of the IETF has finished (part of) its work on the interationalization of email addresses. This, together with Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) will make it possible to send email messages to non-7 bit ASCII addresses e.g. måtte@københavn.dk or 中国@中国.中国 . There are 3 RFCs, covering changes to the SMTP protocol, e-mail [...]
LatinTLD is advising registrars of a sunrise period for internationalised domain names for the .ar (Argentina) ccTLD.
The advice reads:
Dear Registrars:
Sunrise for Argentina’s IDN will be carried during a 100 day period from September 8th to December 16th 2008.
All those who have an “ASCII” (non-IDN) domain registered before July 31st 2008 will be able to request [...]
For all of you following the issue we raised originally to ICANN leadership: As a quick recap, we are concerned that IDNs and their process of implementation should be directed in a way to allow for multi-lingual navigation of the Internet and not used as a tool to control access, impose censorship or limit freedom of expression online.
IDN registrations are now available not only in .SU. Beginning on September, 02, 2008 RU-CENTER offers IDN registrations in .COM and .NET. More than 80 languages are available. Languages that can be written in the following scripts: Latin; Greek; Cyrillic; Armenian; Hebrew; Arabic; Syriac; Bengali; Gurmukhi; Oriya; Tamil; Telegu; Kannada; Malayalam; Sinhala; Thai; Lao; Tibetan; [...]
A partir del 8 de septiembre comenzará el período de registro escalonado de dominios que incorporará al uso de Internet en la Argentina los caracteres multilingües del idioma español y portugués, y se añadirá el subdominio “gob ar” que reemplazará al tradicional “gov ar”. La iniciativa fue impulsada por el Gobierno Nacional a través del [...]
