Tag Archives: IDNs

Fri 18th December 2015
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Verisign IDNs: Landrush sum and Premium Domains - Landrush will not be like Early Access. Verisign is getting ready to launch its first internationalized domain name, a Japanese transliteration of .com .コム. Based on comments Verisign CEO James Bidzos made on an investor conference call, it seemed that the company was considering a declining price “Early Access” model for landrush. Early Access was popularized by Donuts, and is essentially a dutch auction model in which the price to register a domain name decreases over time. Verisign is ... read more ...
Tue 10th November 2015
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Verisign's .IDN priority duration identical to .Porn - Domains will be available during a limited matching period. Verisign has released more information about its IDN transliteration launches. As expected, the launches will include a Priority Access Program that allows existing registrants of second level domain names to buy matching domain names in the new IDN-as-.com extensions. This is similar to what ICM Registry did for .Porn, .Adult and .Sex. Verisign and ICM Registry had originally hoped to continually reserve matching domain names at the second ... read more ...
Fri 6th February 2015
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How is .Com? Verisign discusses, and signs 11 IDN contracts - Verisign signs transliteration TLD contracts, discusses the state of .com. There was a lot of interesting information in yesterday’s Verisign quarterly investor conference call. First, the company said it signed 11 contracts for its IDN transliterations of .com and .net, meaning that investors of IDN.com domain names might be close to getting their hands on IDN.com-as-IDN domains. I say might because Verisign isn’t willing to put a date on it and hinted that the end is not near. The company ... read more ...
Wed 2nd July 2014
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How English speakers can deposit in Chinese IDNs - TLD Registry releases tool for discovering Chinese terms available for registration. Last week in London I sat down with TLD Registry, the company behind the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) domain names. These IDNs have been a success so far, with over 50,000 registrations combined. They are easily within the top twenty new TLDs launched to date and are the top two IDN TLDs in terms of registrations. As an English speaker with little ... read more ...
Wed 19th March 2014
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Chinese supervision buys 20,000 new IDN domain names - TLD Registry inks deal with Chinese government for over 10,000 domains in each of its new TLDs. Pictured: Director LI Qingfeng, The Service Development Center of SCOPSR (China’s own registrar) and Arto ISOKOSKI, CEO, TLD Registry Ltd.TLD Registry Ltd, which is launching the new top level domain names Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), has inked a deal with the Chinese central government’s own registrar for 10,226 domain names in ... read more ...
Fri 7th February 2014
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Verisign: we’re not fearful of new TLDs, and IDN transliterations will be delayed - A defense of .com’s staying power and bad news for IDN.com investors. On its investor conference call yesterday afternoon, Verisign CEO James Bidzos explained why he isn’t afraid of new top level domain names. Also, in a blow to IDN.com investors, the company said it will take a longer for them to hit the market than many are hoping for. New TLDs? We’re not afraid of those! Despite Verisign’s never-ending tactics to delay new top level domain names, Bidzos ... read more ...
Wed 23rd October 2013
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It’s Official: initial 4 new TLDs have been delegated - Four new top level domain names delegated. It’s October 23, 2013, and a few new top level domain name applicants can finally see the fruits of their many, many years of labor. ICANN announced today that four new top level domain names have been delegated. The four domains are شبكة. (web), .游戏 (games), .сайт (site), and .онлайн (online). The registry operators for these domains will soon put up a second level domain or two, which will be another ... read more ...
Mon 29th July 2013
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How right-to-left domain names work in practice - Depending on your language, new TLDs might be about new opportunities to the left of the dot. When ICANN unveiled the list of top level domain name applications at a media event in London last summer, some in the community were upset that Arabic IDNs were presented left to right instead of right to left. Some scripts, including Arabic and Hebrew, are read from right to left. This really hit home for me a couple weeks ago when I was writing about the registry agreement ... read more ...
Sun 14th July 2013
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Verisign reconfirms IDN transliteration plans, provides some-more details - Verisign provides some details on how it will allocate top level domain transliterations. Have you ever invested a lot of money in something without a written contract? It can be a bit nerve racking, and occasionally you can feel like you got burned. That’s why internationalized domain name (IDN) investors are feeling a better after Verisign provided more details about its plans for transliterations of .net and .com domain names. At a high level, there’s nothing ... read more ...
Tue 2nd April 2013
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.CO To Launch IDN’s In Chinese, Japanese and Korean on Apr 15th - According to a blog post tonight, the .Co registry announced they are launching Asian IDNs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. on April 15th, without a formal trademark sunrise, landrush period or grandfathering period for these three IDN languages. “With non-English speaking Internet users and content increasing, providing alternate languages for .CO domain names is expected for the registry and our team. ” “Over the past two and a half years, .CO has become the domain of choice for startups ... read more ...
 
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.Co to offer Asian IDNs starting Apr 15 - More .co internationalized domain name options available this month. .Co Internet announced that it will begin allowing registrations of Asian language .co IDNs starting April 15. Registrations will be available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. There will be no trademark sunrise period, so brand owners that wish to register their IDN.co domain should place an order with their registrar quickly. This isn’t .co’s first foray into internationalized domain names. ... read more ...
Mon 25th March 2013
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Company objects to Chinese IDNs over contractual and obvious rights - Group that partnered with Chinese government for IDNs claims that new TLDs will infringe contractual and intellectual property rights. A legal rights objection is supposed to be filed based on trademarks, but a Singapore company has filed two objections based on alleged contractual terms and patent rights. i-DNS.net says it has filed objections against Chinese Network Information Center (“CNNIC”) and China Organizational Name Administration Center (“CONAC”) ... read more ...
Fri 22nd March 2013
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Objections filed opposite .com and .org IDN tip turn domains - Russian IDNs face legal rights objections. VeriSign and Public Interest Registry have hit a speedbump in their plans to role out versions of .com and .org for the Russian market. VeriSign’s .com transliteration .ком and Public Interest Registry’s Russian equivalent for .org, .орг, have been objected to with Legal Rights Objections. Both objections were filed by two companies, Regtime Ltd. and Legato Ltd. Regtime is an ICANN-accredited registrar, assuming ... read more ...
Wed 27th June 2012
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IDN village reacts to Verisign’s .com transliteration selections - The good, the bad, and the ugly of Verisign’s IDN plans. Verisign applied for 12 internationalized top level domain names as part of the new TLD program. These domain names are transliterations of .com and .net. A transliteration is different from a translation. Transliteration maps the sounds of one language to the best matching script of another. For example, コム when said aloud will sound like “com”, and is only possible because those two characters ... read more ...
Wed 13th June 2012
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VeriSign relates for 9 transliterations of .com and 3 of .net - VeriSign’s IDN plans finally unveiled. Internationalized Domain Name investors, your wait is over. We now know the transliterations of .com and .net that VeriSign has applied for. You can read more about VeriSign’s plans for how it will offer these to owners of existing second level IDNs for .com and .net here. Please comment if you want to say what language these are…more to follow. Also, VeriSign applied for .verisign (no surprise) and .comsec. xn--fhbei Transliteration ... read more ...
Thu 27th January 2011
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India Gets 7 IDN County Code Domain Names - India gets seven IDN ccTLDS and more good news for IDN domain name supporters. One thing I learned on my trip to India earlier this month is that there are a lot of local languages. This week ICANN approved delegation of seven (yes, seven) internationalized county code domain names to National Internet Exchange of India. The delegated ccTLDs include भारत (“Bharat”), encoded as “xn--h2brj9c”; بھارت “Bharat”), encoded ... read more ...
Mon 27th September 2010
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First Ever IDN Event and Auction on Tap for New York in October - New York City event will educate about Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). Few topics have received greater attention this year than IDNs. So it’s fitting that the first ever “IDN Event and Auction” will take place October 30, 2010 at the Haru Restaurant in New York City at 7 pm. The event is organized by IDNTools and will be sponsored by Register.com, Moniker and SnapNames. The goal of the event is to educate domain registrants about IDNs, their value ... read more ...
Fri 7th May 2010
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Register.com IDN Sale Nets $5k in an Hour - IDN Newsletter gets strong start with Register.com domains. Register.com recently did a deal with IDN Newsletter to sell its portfolio of company-owned internationalized domains names. IDN Newsletter is similar to other domain sales newsletters except, well, it only includes IDNs. IDN Newsletter informs us that it sold over $5,000 worth of Register.com’s IDN names today within the first hour of its Register.com mailing. Top sales include: 整体.com $2,000 Body ... read more ...
Sun 25th April 2010
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ICANN Board Approves Delegation of Four IDN ccTLDs - Four IDN ccTLDs delegated, simultaneous delegation requests from China and Taiwan proceed. The ICANN Board of Directors approved the delegation of four internationalized domain name country code domains on Thursday. The four approved ccTLDs are for Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. Russia will get .рф (xn--p1ai) (“R.F.”), delegated to Coordination Center for TLD RU. Saudi Arabia is getting السعودية (xn--mgberp4a5d4ar) ... read more ...
Tue 30th March 2010
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.Tel to Launch IDNs in 16 Languages in June - .Tel domain names get IDNs in June. Coming soon: Jörn.tel, Júlia.tel, and Bjørn.tel. .Tel registry Telnic is launching registration of .tel Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in 16 languages on June 15. IDNs will be available in Chinese, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. The company plans to launch more IDNs as other languages are approved ... read more ...
Fri 26th February 2010
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VeriSign’s Plans for “.Com IDNs” Become Clearer - Registrants of existing .com domain names are well positioned for coming release of IDN TLDs. For years, domainers have been investing in Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) that use non-Latin characters. But these have all been IDN at the second level only, as there currently aren’t any top level domain names in non-Latin characters. So an internet user has to type the second level domain using one character set and then append “.com” to the end. But that’s ... read more ...
Wed 27th January 2010
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IDNs: The Next Horizon for GeoDomain Investors - by Aaron Krawitz, Gary Males Patrick Carleton [Editor’s note: this is a guest article about the potential of IDN geo domain names.] We’ve long been believers in GeoDomains and continue to be on the lookout for new and lucrative niches, which is why we have each individually made substantial investments in IDN GeoDomains. With the fog of uncertainty finally lifting over IDNs, now is the ideal time for for geo investors to stake a claim in IDNs where the window ... read more ...