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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…

IDN History in the making First 4 IDN cctlds pass evaluation process

epsilon — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:10:13 +0000

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 countries on the list, a big Thanks to ICANN, Tina Dam and her IDN crew, and a pat on the back to ourselves for patiently waiting for this moment in IDN History.

Time to take a moment, reflect in the events of the past few years, look forward and GET READY TO RUMBLE.

Let the Games begin.

More details on this story at the ICANN site.

Russia.com sells for 1,5 Mil. USD

epsilon — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:48:07 +0000

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 much.

We also have the recent purchase of the IDN Россия.com for xxx,xxx by veteran IDN investor M.S.