The United Arab Emirates has announced that it is delaying the commencement of the Landrush phase of the .EMARAT (.امارات) IDN.IDN launch that was previously scheduled to begin on July 14, 2011. The Landrush phase is now scheduled to commence on September. 1, 2011. As a result, CSC has re-opened Landrush ordering for this TLD.
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HKIRC, the Registry for .HK domain names, has announced that they plan to launch the new Chinese.hk IDN ccTLD in February/March 2011. In preparation for the launch, HKIRC will permanently discontinue offering Chinese.hk domain names starting January 18, 2011. Any Chinese.hk names registered before that date will continue to resolve and be renewable. In addition, any registrant …
On December 26th, ISOC-IL, the Israeli Domain Name Registry, will open public registration for domain names with Hebrew characters in .CO.IL and .ORG.IL (example: איגוד-האינטרנט.org.il). Registration will be on a first come, first served basis.
ISOC-L approved the registration of 398 Hebrew domain names during the Sunrise registration phase for Trademark holders, which ran from August …
The Somalia Registry, The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, recently announced that they are extending the Sunrise Registration period from November 30, 2010 to December 31, 2010. With this change, the remaining phases will also be pushed back. The dates are now as follows:
• Sunrise Registration: November 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010
• Land Rush …
The Somalia extension was re-delegated to The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications in April 2009. The re-launch will begin on November 1, 2010 and will include:
• .SO – General Purpose
• .COM.SO – Commercial Entities
• .NET.SO – Network Operators
• .ORG.SO – Not-for-Profit Organizations
The registry plans to launch .SO in three phases:
• Sunrise (November 1-30, 2010): This …
The Taiwan registry, Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC), has offered the ability to register IDN.ASCII (aka “IDN.TW”) since 2004. When registering an IDN.TW, if a registrant ordered the name using Traditional Chinese characters for the domain string, the registry would automatically allocate the Simplified Chinese version (if it existed) of the name (and vice versa) …
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CSC has been advised that CNNIC, the registry operator for .CN, will be dispatching a second e-mail notice to registrants of .CN domains registered before December 14, 2009 requesting confirmation that the following information is true, accurate and correct for each domain listed on the notice:
Domain Name
Registrant ID
Registrant Name
Registrant Organization
Registrar Name
These notices will be sent …
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” – Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
With all the attention that Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) have garnered over recent months, is a rose by any other name still a rose? And moreover, does it really matter …
Are you leveraging the true value of your domain name portfolio?
In a recent analysis, we came across several brand owners who were losing tens of thousands of unique visitors to their Web properties each year because of the simple fact that their domain names didn’t resolve to relevant content.
How much do you stand to lose? …
I have the privilege of having worked in the domain industry for a decade now. At the beginning of that career path, I worked for a registrar that was aiming to be corporate, but still predominantly start up. As a result of that experience, there are many areas that I could compare to using a …