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		<title>First IDN cctlds in the Root</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the introduction of the first IDN cctlds in the DNS root.
The first three non-latin country code top level domains to go live in the root according to ICANN&#8217;s blog, are:
السعودية (“Al-Saudiah” &#8211; Saudi Arabia),  امارات. ( “Emarat” &#8211; UAE) and مصر. (“Misr” &#8211; Egypt)

You can view a functioning, full IDN website (Egypt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://idntraffic.com/first-idn-cctlds-in-the-root/</link>
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		<title>Jordan idn cctld application passes string evaluation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the U.A.E. receive delegation approval for their applied icctlds, Jordan is next on the growing list of countries to pass the ICANN string evaluation process.
The cctld applied for is
الاردن
[xn--mgbayh7gpa]
IDN domain investors have been wondering where Japan is during all this. Somewhere on the other side of the Pacific, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://idntraffic.com/jordan-idn-cctld-application-passes-string-evaluation/</link>
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		<title>Three more countries pass string evaluation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taiwan, Thailand and Tunisia are in the second batch of countries passing the string evaluation process and are now eligible for string delegation.
Taiwan&#8217;s primary strings are
xn--kpry57d
台灣
xn--kprw13d
台湾


Thailand&#8217;s is
xn--o3cw4h
ไทย
and Tunisia&#8217;s is
xn--pgbs0dh
تونس
According to ICANN, these three countries are free to enter the third part of the IDN Fast Track process, which is string delegation.
Glad to see more countries [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://idntraffic.com/three-more-countries-pass-string-evaluation/</link>
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		<title>IDN History in the making First 4 IDN cctlds pass evaluation process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks an important IDN Historic event as four countries pass the evaluation process of the IDN cctld Fast Track.
The first four countries/territories to have passed the evaluation process [ awaiting delegation ] are:
Saudi Arabia with primary string:
xn--mgberp4a5d4ar
السعودية
and variant strings:
xn--mgberp4a5d4a87g
السعودیة
xn--mgbqly7c0a67fbc
السعودیۃ
xn--mgbqly7cvafr
السعوديه
Egypt with string:
xn--wgbh1c
مصر
United Arab Emirates with string:
xn--mgbaam7a8h
امارات
and Russia with string:
xn--p1ai
рф
Our congratulations first to the first four [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://idntraffic.com/idn-history-in-the-making-first-4-idn-cctlds-pass-evaluation-process/</link>
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		<title>Nice showing of IDNs on DNJ domain sales report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was refreshing to see a nice list of IDNs on DNJournal&#8217;s reported domains sale list.
Not surprisingly, all of them were from Sedo&#8217;s idn .eu domain auction in December 2009 after it managed to snag a good portion of sought-after domains when the IDN dot eu landrush started on December 10th.
Here&#8217;s what made the list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://idntraffic.com/nice-showing-of-idns-on-dnj-domain-sales-report/</link>
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		<title>Google to review the feasibility of their business operations in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest post on the official Google blog mentions infiltration attacks to their corporate infrastructure, mainly the accessing of Chinese Human Rights activists&#8217; Gmail accounts by third parties. As a result, Google is planning to review their business operations in China.
First, I believe there&#8217;s much more to this than what they let appear on that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://idntraffic.com/google-review-the-feasibility-of-their-business-operations-in-china/</link>
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		<title>IDN dot EU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IDN.EU Sedo auction is over with mostly German, Polish and Russian&#8230;err&#8230;Bulgarian names bringing in the higher end results. Too bad they are not all being reported simultaneously at DNJ to create the effect I was hoping for, which was to slap some sense into some domain investors who have been reluctant to delve into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://idntraffic.com/idn-dot-eu/</link>
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		<title>Büromöbel.de €69,000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IDN domain sales on DNJ keep piling up with the latest being&#8230;
Büromöbel.de €69,000  [office furniture in German] which is also the highest reported IDN sale on DnJournal.
The following were the sideshow.
整形美容.com $3,304  plastic surgery in Chinese
Eisbär.de $2,920  polar bear in German
Olivenöl.org €4,500 = $6,570  Olive oil in German
[Olivenöl.eu currently on Sedo auction sitting at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://idntraffic.com/buromobel-de-e69000/</link>
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		<title>Latest IDN sales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to DN Journal&#8217;s report, the only IDN which showed up on the reported sales list is möbelfachhandel.de which went for $3,675, meaning furniture dealers in German.
No surprises there in regards to German IDN sales being on top of the list [as far as IDN are concerned] The sales venue was, not surprisingly, Sedo. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://idntraffic.com/latest-idn-sales/</link>
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		<title>Russia.com sells for 1,5 Mil. USD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was on the front page of sedo dot com, under recent sales. Even though an ascii, I thought it was relevant to post here, since the latest news on the IDN front is about Cyrillic IDN domains.
A bit on the cheap side considering that a decent apartment in Moscow will cost you about that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://idntraffic.com/russia-com-sells-for-15-mil-usd/</link>
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