Domain and Trademark Blog

The Malaysian domain names registry has recently announced further details regarding the launch of Jawi, Chinese, and Tamil IDN.my domain names. 
• Phase 3 (September 20, 2011 – November 30, 2011): Please note that because of the time difference, this launch begins at 9pm on Monday September 19th EDT. This phase includes Jawi, Chinese, and Tamil …

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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All Egyptian government agencies, including the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) and the Egyptian Trademark Office and Patent Office have resumed work. CSC is now able to process domain name registrations, renewal, transfer or modification requests for .EG domain names.
For those clients who have been participating in the Sunrise launch of the Arabic version of …

Please note that CNNIC, the Registry for .CN domain names, is closed for National Holidays until February 14, 2011. During this time they will not be processing any transfer requests, changes, or registrations.
CSC will still be accepting orders for .CN domain name registrations however they will not be processed until CNNIC returns from their holiday.
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The Palestinian National Internet Naming Authority (PNINA) has announced that the Open Registration period for the Palestinian Territories IDN.IDN (.Falasteen) has been postponed until January 16, 2011. Open Registration was originally scheduled to begin on January 2, 2011.
Registration eligibility remains the same, with registration open to all local and international individuals and institutions on January …

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) …

“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 …

First of all, let’s look at what an IDN is. An IDN (Internationalised domain name), is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet. The Domain Name System, which performs a lookup service to translate user-friendly …