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Release of IE7, Firefox 2.0 Will Drive Significant IDN Demand

• Comment posted Nov 20, 2006 2:37 pm PST — by David Wrixon
  OK, I accept that but it has to be measured against the risk of missing the boat. Even in the after market these domains are still very cheap, but the final solution certainly won't be.

• Comment posted Nov 19, 2006 12:31 pm PST — by David Wrixon
  @Bradley Epstein. Place holders they may be, but you can be 99.9% sure that if you get the ASCII ccTLD you will also end up with the IDN version. In Dot CN you already get both in the price! With…

Rhetorical Questions on IDN TLD Approaches

• Comment posted Nov 18, 2006 1:31 am PST — by David Wrixon
  If Unicode is ever put directly into the Root, which frankly I doubt will actually happen, then this would only ever be done at the top level. Personally, I think ICANN will see sense and adopt the DNAME approach. The…

• Comment posted Nov 16, 2006 11:35 am PST — by David Wrixon
  @Bill Stewart, I am sorry Bill. I have been working with IDN for a couple of years and you have me completely lost. As far as I am aware, Punycode at the second level resolves through the DNS in the…

• Comment posted Nov 08, 2006 10:24 am PST — by David Wrixon
  The view that languages belong to Nations is a very narrow one and totally unworkable. From a Japanese or Korean perspective it easy to see why some would take this view as their languages are little spoken outside their national…

Internationalizing the Internet

• Comment posted Nov 26, 2006 11:40 am PST — by David Wrixon
  @Kieren I think the keyword is listen. Britain for many years dismissed Americans as their country cousins. We as a nation did not face up to the fact that our influence Internationally was not only waning, but had no serious…

• Comment posted Nov 22, 2006 3:44 pm PST — by David Wrixon
  My perspective is that whilst 95% of the Domain community are still saying that IDN will never work, we are avoiding implementing IDN using DNAME aliases for fear that the system might become overloaded. If that is a serious risk…

Domain Registrations Hit 112 Million

• Comment posted Dec 23, 2006 11:54 pm PST — by David Wrixon
  Verisign will not need continued name tasting for further growth. The dot com registry is just about saturated for ASCII, but the roll out of IE7 and the adoption of IDNs will ensure record growth in the registration of dot…

Chinese and Japanese IDN in .BIZ

• Comment posted May 14, 2007 11:19 pm PDT — by David Wrixon
  Very successful launch by all accounts. Our members at dnlocal.com many of whom live in the Far East Report enormous enthusiasm for this extension in both China and Japan.

The Inextricable Issue of Internationalized Domain Names

• Comment posted Jul 07, 2007 10:48 am PDT — by David Wrixon
  At present any substantive commitment from ICANN to do anything at all rather than simply promising to talk about more talks would be a massive step forward. It would also help if Paul Twomey would stop pretending that ICANN is…

Is China Preparing to Go its Own Way with its Own Internet Root?

• Comment posted Feb 01, 2008 4:47 am PST — by David Wrixon
  China wants technology that suits its needs. None of this means they are trying to break the Internet, but they don't want the US dictating the pace of development. Being partnered to the US is often a bit like being…