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  • William Tan
  • Sr Software Engineer, NeuStar
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  • Member Since: Oct 25, 2006
  • Country: United States
  • Featured Posts: 2
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About: William Tan is a senior software engineer working in the registry group at NeuStar. He doubles up as an i18n architect and advisor on technical and policy issues involving IDN.

He is also the chief architect for the IDN-OSS project (home of the EchIDNA plug-in for Internet Explorer), and operates an IDN community directory — IDNSearch.net.

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Featured Posts — by William Tan 

DNS, Domain Names, Domain Registries, Multilinguism, Regional Registries, Top-Level Domains / blogs / Aug 28, 2007 10:35 AM PST

ICANN Tests IDN TLD (Live!)

At ICANN San Juan, I found out from Tina Dam, ICANN's IDN Program Director, that she was putting together a live IDN TLD test bed plan which includes translations of the string .test into eleven written languages (Arabic, Chinese-simplified, Chinese-traditional, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Tamil and Yiddish) and ten scripts (Arabic, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Han, Hangul, Hebrew, Hiragana, Katakana, Tamil)... Two days ago, ICANN provided an update on this project... ›››

By William Tan | Comments: 4 | Views: 4251

DNS, Domain Names, Multilinguism, Top-Level Domains / blogs / Apr 26, 2007 4:43 PM PST

Chinese and Japanese IDN in .BIZ

I just got back this morning from attending the OASIS XRI TC face-to-face meeting with Bill Barnhill, Drummond Reed, Laurie Rae, Les Chasen, Markus Sabadello, Marty Schleiff. A number of good things came out of the meeting, which I'll leave for another blog because this post is about Internationalized Domain Names, not XRI. So we just opened the flood gates for Chinese and Japanese IDNs for .BIZ. This has been my brainchild for the past half a year or so, and represents a significant step forward for our registry in terms of internationalization. ›››

By William Tan | Comments: 3 | Views: 4570

Recent Comments — by William Tan

typo: s/\.swe/\.se/ (Sweden’s ccTLD is .se) Apr 30, 2008
I’m not sure how putting A-labels into the 2nd level or lower make it any… Sep 11, 2007
Jeroen, it sounds like you have various issues with new TLDs — not just IDNs.… Sep 07, 2007
Yes, the new term for ML.ML is IDN.IDN, or more specifically IDN-TLD. The question is… May 05, 2007
This is a little misleading as the topic of the interview (and I believe this… Nov 09, 2006

Most Popular — by William Tan

Chinese and Japanese IDN in .BIZ
Apr 26, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Views: 4,570
ICANN Tests IDN TLD (Live!)
Aug 28, 2007 | Comments: 4 | Views: 4,251