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 [...]

Domain News, Egypt, fast track, ICANN, icctld, icctlds, IDN, IDN News, IDN tlds, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE

It was refreshing to see a nice list of IDNs on DNJournal’s reported domains sale list.
Not surprisingly, all of them were from Sedo’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’s what made the list [...]

.EU, DNJ, domain sales, IDN, IDN .eu

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 [...]

icctld, icctlds, IDN, internationalized domain names

From an article posted on RussiaToday

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var s0 = new SWFObject(“http://idntraffic.com/wp-content/plugins/flash-video-player/mediaplayer/player.swf”,”n0″,”400″,”280″,”7″);
s0.addParam(“allowfullscreen”,”true”);
s0.addParam(“allowscriptaccess”,”always”);
s0.addParam(“wmode”,”opaque”);
s0.addVariable(“id”,”n0″);
s0.addVariable(“backcolor”,”000000″);
s0.addVariable(“frontcolor”,”CCFF00″);
s0.addVariable(“controlbar”,”bottom”);
s0.addVariable(“height”,”280″);
s0.addVariable(“playlist”,”none”);
s0.addVariable(“skin”,”http://idntraffic.com/wp-content/plugins/flash-video-player/skins/thin/thin.swf”);
s0.addVariable(“width”,”400″);
s0.addVariable(“autostart”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(“bufferlength”,”1″);
s0.addVariable(“displayclick”,”play”);
s0.addVariable(“icons”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(“linktarget”,”_blank”);
s0.addVariable(“logo”,”http://idntraffic.com/idn%20video.jpg”);
s0.addVariable(“mute”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(“quality”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(“repeat”,”none”);
s0.addVariable(“resizing”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(“shuffle”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(“stretching”,”uniform”);
s0.addVariable(“volume”,”90″);
s0.addVariable(“aboutlink”,”http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/”);
s0.addVariable(“file”,”http://www.russiatoday.ru/v/old/478b3254843d5.flv”);
s0.write(“video0″);

General Director of Begun in Moscow, Aleksey Basov, says Cyrillic domains are attractive to people who want to penetrate potential markets.
“Cyrillic domains reflect recent trends which attempt to reach out to parts of the population that are not comfortable [...]

cctld, cyrillic, domain, IDN

The cat’s out of the bag now and IDN domain traffic will continue its upward trend, just because I say so!
ICANN’t is about to unleash the icctlds [ idn cctlds] with .рф out of the gates first, which should enhance IDN awareness resulting in a nice ‘explosion’ in Cyrillic domain traffic to say the least. [...]

domains, icctld, IDN, домены, рф