- IDN.IDN
IDN.IDN is an
abbreviation for anInternationalized domain name whoseTop level domain (TLD) is also internationalized, which could betransliterated .com, .net, .org, etc. or be groupings relevant to the language at hand.Recent news
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March 14 ,2006 : [http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-14mar06.htm Timetable of Proposed Testing of IDNS in Top-Level Domains Announced]English transliterative proposals
* Chinese:
** .中国 : .cn
** .公司 : .com
** .网络 : .net* Korean:
** .한국 : .kr
** .회사 : .com
** .기관 : .org
** .통신 : .communication
** .컴 : .computer* Japanese:
** .日本 : .jp* Russian:
** .КОМ : .com
** .НЕТ : .net
** .ОРГ : .org* Bulgarian:
** .БГ : .bg
** .ИНФО : .info
** .ИМЕ : .name* Hebrew:
** קום : .com
** נט : .net
** ארג : .org* Arabic:
** كوم : .com
** نت : .net
** اورغ , اورج : .org
** نطاق : .domainCulturally relevant proposals
* Chinese:
* Korean:
* Japanese:
* Russian:
* Hebrew:
** שלום.דבר : shalom.dbr (dbr being roots of the verb 'to talk')
** דפנה.שלי : daphne.shli (shli being a preposition 'of me,' for personal homepages, etc)* Arabic:
** شركة : .com
** شبكة : .net
** منظمة : .orgConcerns and considerations
As this is an issue still being "decided upon," (for many years, apparently) there are many factors to be considered. Here are a few just thrown out to be edited around and made to look pretty.
*IDN.COM vs. IDN.IDN, important issue as IDN.COM is already available.
*Compatibility
*Punycode *"branching off from the *main* internet" (various POVs)
**Who Owns The Internet
**The UN Resolution from meeting in Tunisia*Localization
**Transliteration of COM NET ORG vs. culturally significant TLD names of the languages' own choosing.
**Right-to-left formatted languages such as Arabic and HebrewExternal links
* [http://www.icann.org/committees/idn/ ICANN's IDN Committee]
* [http://www.icann.org/announcements/proposal-for-itlds-17nov05.pdf Proposal for the Implementation of Internationalized TLDs]
* [http://www.domainbits.com/idn/ IDN Guide]
* [http://www.idnnews.com IDN News]
* [http://forum.icann.org/lists/idn-tlds-comments/msg00000.html Korean Government Position on IDN TLDs]
* [http://idnclub.com/ IDN's Forum]
* [http://www.dnlocal.com/ Local Domains Forum]
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