Archive for October 2008

Statistics of Latinamerican Domains – September 2008

Statistics of Latinamerican Domains – September 2008. LatinoamerICANN published its monthly report with domain name statistics in latinamerica which correspond to september 2008. One of the relevant points is that the region exceeded the amount of 4.000.000 domains delegated and it represents a growth of 17,87% from the beginning of the year. The leader cctld [...]

New Information for Geographic gTLD Applicants

ICANN to Require Multi-Territory Cooperation on Select New Geographic gTLDs If you are an organization currently looking to register a new gTLD for a specific geographic area, make sure you have all the facts before you apply. If your application does not stress multi-territory cooperation for your geographic gTLD or governmental support, ICANN will likely [...]

Japanese Gambling.com IDN was sold for $150,000

ZODIAC CAPITAL TO INITIATE A MAJOR GAMING PROJECT Sydney NSW, January 14, 2008 — Zodiac Capital Limited (ASX: ZOD) advises that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in the dot-com Japanese domain name for “gambling”, (“ギャンブル”, pronounced “Gyanburu”). ギャンブル .com is an IDN (International Domain Name) Internet portal and vertical [...]

Comodo SSL Certificates Solve Trust Problems for Increasingly Demanded Internationalized Domains

Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) capability available on a broad portfolio of SSL offerings Jersey City, NJ, October 07, 2008 – Companies utilizing Internationalized Domain Names (IDN’s) have long had to overcome visitor concern and uncertainty regarding the security and perceived authenticity of their websites. However, sites using Comodo SSL certificates have been able to address [...]

New Languages Expand ICANN’s IDN Testing

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers efforts to bring the languages of the world online have expanded with the addition of two new languages — Bengali and Khmer — to the global testing process. "Each time we add a new language to the wiki, we open up the chance [...]

Bengali and Khmer Added to IDN Testing Process

IDN Sales Report – September 2008

IDN Sales Report Sept. 1, 2008 – Sept. 30, 2008 All sales are over 500 USD IDN punycode language translation price* where 1 сочи.com xn--h1aliz russian Sochi 21 555 idnchannel 2 沙发.com xn--oorp09c chinese sofa 9 000 private 3 株マップ.com xn--9ckxbt7377c japanese stock map 8 000 private 4 网.cn xn--ur0a chinese network 7 034 66.cn [...]

ICANN Seeks Interest in IDN ccTLD Fast-Track Process

The IDNC WG recommended that as part of the implementation plan of the IDN ccTLD “fast-track” process a request for information (RFI) is sent out to all territories to gain an understanding of the interest of individual territories to participate in the Fast Track process. Participation in the RFI is not be mandatory to be [...]

Interim Report on DNAME Technical Evaluation

Overview • Prepared DNS emulation environment locally – the environment includes: – Root DNS server, JP DNS server, “Nippon” DNS server, other authoritative DNS server and Cache DNS server • Evaluated the followings: (1) Functionality: Verification of name resolution of “Nippon” TLD (2) Performance: Measurement of impact on Root/JP/Cache DNS servers caused by name resolution [...]