First IDN cctlds in the Root

Posted by epsilon @ May 6th, 2010. Filed under Domain News, IDN News

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’s blog, are:
السعودية (“Al-Saudiah” – Saudi Arabia), امارات. ( “Emarat” – UAE) and مصر. (“Misr” – Egypt)

You can view a functioning, full IDN website (Egypt [...]

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The Last Stretch

Posted by epsilon @ October 31st, 2009. Filed under IDN News

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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