IDN Traffic

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 [...]

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A quick and to the point video from MSNBC explaining the importance of the IDN cctld introduction from ICANN.
It’s the Geek Moment from The Rachel Maddow Show.
Geek Moment MSNBC
Show this to people who have a hard time understanding the value and importance of IDNs

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Yes, we’re open for business.
ICANN’s IDN cctld Fast Track Process is successfully launched on November 16th, 2009. Today, that is.
The ICANN blog reports that the organization has received 6 requests from countries/territories, representing 3 different languages.
It will be interesting to see which countries or territories apply for the fast track process during the opening day. [...]

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Everyone and their mamma seems to be blogging [copying and pasting, really] in reference to the iCCTLDs resolution by ICANN during their recent Seoul symposium …er, meeting.
The thing which concerns me, judging from many of the comments to the various blog posts and domain forums, is that many domain investors seem to be clueless as [...]

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