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ICANN to Start Sample Internationalized Domain Trials in 11 Languages

• Comment posted Oct 09, 2007 6:36 pm PDT — by Tina Dam
  Stephane Bortzmeyer said: On Oct. 15, ICANN plans to unveil mechanisms for individuals and businesses to try out the new sample Top-Level Domains in nearly a dozen languages. The new TLD are now in the root. As far as I…

• Comment posted Oct 08, 2007 8:13 pm PDT — by Tina Dam
  Stephane Bortzmeyer said: Inserting 11 TLDs in the root at the same time, and that Internationalized ones, have never been done before. Inserting ".museum" in the root was never done before, too, and noone claimed it could be an hazard.…

• Comment posted Oct 08, 2007 8:07 pm PDT — by Tina Dam
  Stephane Bortzmeyer said: Opera is the one browser (of those that I have tried out) that will display the entire address (domain name and path) in local characters. OK, but the path has nothing to do with IDN (IDN are…

• Comment posted Oct 06, 2007 5:54 am PDT — by Tina Dam
  Stephane Bortzmeyer said: A 24-hour hot line is being established to allow ICANN to quickly suspend the test if any problems might disrupt other domains such as “.com” and “.uk.” This is quite ridiculous. What could be wrong with these…

• Comment posted Oct 06, 2007 5:49 am PDT — by Tina Dam
  Stephane Bortzmeyer said: The AP article says: Among major browsers, only the one from Opera Software ASA fully implements Punycode, Dam said. Did ICANN really said so? This is so untrue, was it a mistake from the AP reporter or…