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Jordan idn cctld application passes string evaluation

epsilon — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:45:22 +0000

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 suppose [depending on where you live].

The Russian Minister of Communications announced that he expects to see Cyrillic domains in the top level .рф sometime in Septemebr 2010.

Meanwhile, Verisign are keeping to themselves. Mum’s the word…

Moment of Geek IDN cctld Video

epsilon — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:49:52 +0000

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

icctld Fast Track Process

epsilon — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:39:39 +0000

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. Besides China and Russia of course, the two sure bets.

For clarification purposes, during the IDN cctld Fast Track process, countries and territories will be able to apply for a cctld representative of their language, in that script.

Idn traffic; we’re almost there…