Archive for October 24, 2008

Russian Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications Talks About Cyrillic Domain Names

Posted on October 24, 2008, 11:29 pm, by CircleID:, under Exclusive.

Igor Schegolev, the Russian Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications spoke at the opening of the InfoCom 2008 exhibition in Moscow. Among other things, which made news (for example, that the Russian government will be implementing a free and open source based operating system on all computers in the Russian schools), he also made the following remarks – translated by me in English. More…

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ICANN: Public Comment: IDN ccTLD Fast Track Draft Implementation Plan

Posted on October 24, 2008, 3:15 am, by ICANN Announcements, under ICANN, ICANN Announcements.

ICANN is pleased to make the Draft Implementation Plan for the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process available for public discussions. The Draft Implementation Plan can be found here [PDF, 297K]. The IDN Fast Track Process is a mechanism recommended by the IDNC Working Group, focused on the introduction of a limited number of non contentious [...]

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