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William Tan

William Tan

Sr Software Engineer, NeuStar
Joined on October 25, 2006 – United States
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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.

Except where otherwise noted, all postings by William Tan on CircleID are licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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Vint in International Herald Tribune on IDNs

Comment posted Nov 09, 2006 2:06 pm PST — by William Tan
This is a little misleading as the topic of the interview (and I believe this post) is really IDN TLD, not IDNs with an ASCII TLD label.

Chinese and Japanese IDN in .BIZ

Comment posted May 05, 2007 7:20 pm PDT — by William Tan
Yes, the new term for ML.ML is IDN.IDN, or more specifically IDN-TLD. The question is not if but when IDN-TLD will be available at the root level.

ICANN Tests IDN TLD (Live!)

Comment posted Sep 11, 2007 4:28 pm PDT — by William Tan
I'm not sure how putting A-labels into the 2nd level or lower make it any more hierarchical. Granted it keeps the root from being too cluttered, but you can't avoid any of the administrative overhead associated with inserting labels into…

Comment posted Sep 08, 2007 5:32 am PDT — by William Tan
Jeroen, it sounds like you have various issues with new TLDs — not just IDNs. I'm going to just pick IDN parts to reply to. I do, partially, agree that IDN is a good thing, people should be able to…

Top-Level Domains .arpa, .org, and .uk Adopting DNSSEC

Comment posted Apr 30, 2008 7:44 pm PDT — by William Tan
typo: s/\.swe/\.se/ (Sweden's ccTLD is .se)

Topic Interests

DNS, Domain Names, Top-Level Domains, Multilinguism, Domain Registries, Regional Registries, DNSSEC, Security

Recent Blogs

ICANN Tests IDN TLD (Live!)

Aug 28, 2007
Comments: 4
Views: 5,043

Chinese and Japanese IDN in .BIZ

Apr 26, 2007
Comments: 3
Views: 5,359

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Chinese and Japanese IDN in .BIZ

Apr 26, 2007
Comments: 3
Views: 5,359

ICANN Tests IDN TLD (Live!)

Aug 28, 2007
Comments: 4
Views: 5,043

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