Comments on: EC Welcomes International Domain Names http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-development/ec-welcomes-international-domain-names-2474 Enhancing business with technology - in association with eweek.com Thu, 24 May 2012 11:10:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Russia May Join ICANN Board | Single Name Server http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-development/ec-welcomes-international-domain-names-2474#comment-76604 Russia May Join ICANN Board | Single Name Server Fri, 13 May 2011 20:27:31 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-development/ec-welcomes-international-domain-names-2474#comment-76604 [...] Cyrillic internationalised top-level domain for Russia, .РФ (short for “Russian Federation”), was launched in November 2011 and has been expanding [...] [...] Cyrillic internationalised top-level domain for Russia, .РФ (short for “Russian Federation”), was launched in November 2011 and has been expanding [...]

]]> By: EuropeanDomainCentre http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-development/ec-welcomes-international-domain-names-2474#comment-306 EuropeanDomainCentre Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:19:19 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-development/ec-welcomes-international-domain-names-2474#comment-306 It was a great step by Icann to approve non- latin characters. The first domain name was registered 25 years ago, and now finally users can have domains in their own language. Imagine if China had invented The Internet and we had to use Chinese characters in The domain name. Doesn't make sense, right? But that has been The situation for non-latin speaking countries up to now Christopher Hofman European Domain Centre It was a great step by Icann to approve non- latin characters. The first domain name was registered 25 years ago, and now finally users can have domains in their own language. Imagine if China had invented The Internet and we had to use Chinese characters in The domain name. Doesn’t make sense, right? But that has been The situation for non-latin speaking countries up to now

Christopher Hofman

European Domain Centre

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