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IDN application update: Egypt, Russia, China…

By On November 28, 2009 · 3 Comments

So who’s applied for IDNs so far?

According to ICANN, 10 applications (representing five languages) were submitted over the first four days.

ICANN won’t announce exactly who applied and for what until each application is successful — which pushes us well into 2010.

So I’ve had to turn to press reports from the registries to [...]

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Meet the next generation of country codes

By On November 8, 2009 · 1 Comment

So now that the media hype over internationalized domain names (IDNs) has died down, let’s focus on the messy details of what this all means.

First of all, we’re not about to see the non-Latin equivalent of .com anytime soon. Certainly not next year. There are several reason for this which I will cover [...]

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The Chinese domain name bubble bursts

By On August 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Nearly one year ago, I asked Will .CN become the next .COM?

And perhaps I was right in more ways than one.

Because now it appears that .CN is experiencing its very own .COM bust.

Just a year ago Chinese domain registrations were booming, so quickly in fact that .CN had surpassed .DE [...]

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Want to buy the number 8?

By On May 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Someone is promoting the sale of a Chinese domain name, shown here. Technically, this domain is represented over the Internet as http://www.xn--45q.ws, which is the ASCII equivalent of the Chinese character — the DNS is still ASCII-only.

In China, the number 8 one of the best numbers to have on your license [...]

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