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There have been some reports in the past few days about possible “division” of the Internet in Russia, tied in with speculation that the forthcoming Cyrillic domain names will be used to grant the Russian government more control over its citizens. The source of this speculation appears to be an article published in UK newspaper The Guardian. That article was then reproduced in a number of Russian news articles, most of them quoting a direct translation published by SecurityLab.
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If there is one question or concern related to IDNs that have been asked continuously in the past year it has to be that of internationalizing versus localizing the domain name space. In other words, questions such as:
“Well, but I don’t have a keyboard that enables me to type in all these new characters, so I cannot type in these IDN addresses, why are you allowing this to happen?”
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The IDNwiki was released at 4.10am PDT 15 October 2007 (UTC – 7hours). Now, 6 weeks later, here are some updated user statistics and related information. As mentioned previously we will also provide a report that focuses on the initial results with the evaluation of fully localized domain names, as the wiki has been set [...]
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The IDNwikis were released at 4.10am PDT 15 October 2007 (UTC – 7hours). While the primary reason for the IDNwikis is to evaluate fully localized domain names in different applications, I thought it might be interesting with some user stats and related information from here. There was immediate traffic on all wikis, with the area [...]
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Earlier this week, we inserted eleven new top-level domains in the DNS root zone. These represent the term “test” translated into ten languages, in ten different scripts (Chinese is represented in two different scripts, and Arabic script is used by two different languages). This blog post is not about that. (If you’re interested about it, [...]
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في 23 أغسطس 2007 وضعت الآيكان اللمسات النهائية لخطة التقييم الخاصة بإدراج أسماء النطاقات الدولية في منطقة الجذر. وجاءت التعديلات الأخيرة على الخطة بناء على التعليقات الواردة على القائمة البريدية لأسماء النطاقات الدولية http://forum.icann.org/lists/idn-discuss/ وكذلك من خلال التشاور مع اللجان الاستشارية الفنية للآيكان. وقد أقر مجلس إدارة الآيكان في اجتماعه الأخير في 14 أغسطس 2007 [...]
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In a little over a month (September 10-12), IT professionals from around the world will meet at the Vatutinki residence near Moscow, Russia. Among them will be, from ICANN, Theresa Swinehart, Tina Dam and Veni Markovski, as well as Fred Baker and Patrik Faltstrom (CISCO/IETF), Jaap Akkerhuis (DNSsec/NLnet Labs), Timothy Lowe (RIPE), and Lynn St. [...]
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You’d be surprised how many people are asking that question at the moment, but you won’t be surprised to know that the only thing they agree on is that they either don’t know, or that they disagree with the people that believe they do. I am not going to attempt to provide my own answer, [...]
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Last year, American retailer Wal-Mart gave up in an attempt to expand into Germany, and one of the reasons they cited was that they didn’t understand the local market. “Did you know that American pillow cases are a different size than those in Germany?” Wal-Mart Germany CEO David Wild asked Welt am Sonntag. Hearing this [...]
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