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If Russians are wary of Cyrillic domains, who’s buying them?

By On November 16, 2010 · 1 Comment

About a year ago, the NY Times ran an article with the headline: Russians Wary of Cyrillic Web Domains.

As someone who has long been bullish on the future of internationalized domain names (IDNs), I caught a fair amount of grief once this story broke.

So when I see this evening that [...]

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I’m huge in Japan

By On November 1, 2010 · 3 Comments

My last name happens to be a rather popular brand name in Japan.

The Yunker product is a health tonic and has been around since the late 1960s — just like me.

Unfortunately, I have not yet figured out how to profit from the Yunker brand.

It turns out that my Japanese name — [...]

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IDN update: Korea and India join the party

By On September 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment

To date, there have been 33 internationalized domain name (IDN) requests across 22 languages.

Most recently, India and Korea passed the string evaluation stage with their IDNs. I’ve updated my IDN page to include these new domains.

India is particularly fascinating. There are no fewer than seven scripts used to represent the IDN equivalent [...]

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Gruber gives up on his ✪ IDN

By On September 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Tech pundit John Gruber threw in the towel on his domain ✪df.ws.

He writes:

What I didn’t foresee was the tremendous amount of software out there that does not properly parse non-ASCII characters in URLs, particularly IDN domain names. Twitter clients (including, seemingly, every app written using Adobe AIR, which includes some very popular [...]

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