Archive for November 20, 2009

Tunisia: upcoming launch of internet domain names in Arabic

 
TUNISIAONLINENEWS- With a view to making the internet more accessible around the world, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has opened the domain application process to non-Latin characters for website addresses with its inclusion of internationalised domain names.

Following Egypt’s application for a domain name in Arabic on Monday, Tunisia has also applied [...]

Breakdown of the number of IDNs currently registered (Some language stats included)

Figures are current as of today. Total # of IDNs registered in .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz: 964,894 By extension: .com – 699,737 (72.51%) .net – 197,037 (20.42%) .org – 18,736 (1.94%) .info – 25,851 (2.68%) .biz – 23,533 (2.44%) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .com & .net figures for language (These are not accurate so allow ±% and [...]

Tina Dam: 4 days in the Fast Track Process

Just a brief message to keep you up to date. As of 00:00 UTC today – 4 days after the launch of the Fast Track Process we have new requests coming in. The total number is 10 requests. They spread over 5 different languages. Details about the process is at: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/ Please keep asking questions. [...]