Archive for September 8, 2008

Soon in a Mail Box Near You: Internationalized Email Addresses

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 [...]

.ar Introduces IDNs

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 [...]