Egypt will open the world’s first Arabic language internet domain, its communications minister has said. Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be “.masr” written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as “.Egypt”. “It is a great moment for us… The internet now speaks Arabic,” Mr Kamel said. Last month, internet regulator Icann voted [...]
16 November 2009 ICANN is pleased to announce the launch of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process. Non-English speakers across the globe will soon have access to the Internet addresses completely in their own language. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization charged with overseeing the Internet’s naming and numbering systems, [...]
As we (at ICANN staff) have been preparing for the Fast Track launch, for tomorrow, it was suggested to me that I write a blog post about it. I could have written about all the hard work, the long hours, the aggressive testing of the online system, keeping it simple and yet flexible for all [...]
So now that the media hype over internationalized domain names (IDNs) has died down, let’s focus on the messy details of what this all means. First of all, we’re not about to see the non-Latin equivalent of .com anytime soon. Certainly not next year. There are several reason for this which I will cover in [...]
November 9, 2009 The Kremlin, Moscow MINISTER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS IGOR SHCHEGOLEV: I am ready to brief you on the implementation of your instruction regarding promotion of the Russian language in the Internet address system. PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Yes, as I recall, active discussion of this matter began a year [...]
Nov 11, 2009 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) — EuroDNS announces the opening of a pre-registration period for .eu Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), based on a first-come, first-served model. Companies and individuals based in the European Union have now the opportunity to register domain names that contain non-Latin characters under the .eu domain. Xavier Buck, CEO of [...]
Seoul, Oct 27 Andrei Kolesnikov THE .РФ PROJECT • October 30, 2009 –you know… • As soon as Fast Track opens, all documents ready • Accept financial conditions • November 2, 2009 -… start accreditation of registrars forIDN ccTLD.РФ • 25 of November, 2009 –25 of March, 2010 –priority registration for Cyrillic TM’s • April [...]
Seoul, Oct 26 Tina Dam Sr. Director, IDNs What is the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process • Process to introduce a limited number of IDN ccTLDs, that – are associated with ISO3166‐1 two‐letter codes – are comprised of non‐Latin characters – includes government and community support – represent country/territory names [...]
Seoul, 25 Oct IDN Implementation Status • With responsible rules and oversight, significant consensus to launch Fast Track process soon – The Board will consider launching that process at this meeting • Additionally, significant progress has been made towards the launch of the new gTLD process, including the delegation of IDNs • Culmination of years [...]
As mentioned earlier, the registration of TLDs ( .рф for Russian Federation) will take place starting 16 November 2009. Afterwards, the accreditation of Second Level Domains (SLDs) will commence at the end of November. At the top of the priorities list are the Governmental institutions (eligible for free registration), trade mark owners and the administrative centres in [...]
