Indonesia to Register Six Traditional Scripts as IDNs
Following the successful registration of the Hanacaraka Javanese script as an IDN, the Indonesian Domain Names Manager PANDI hope to do...
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News and Blogs
Latest news, articles, developments and analysis on IDNs
Research Team
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
Verisign Granted IDN Patent
On 16 June 2020 Verisign was granted a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office for Alternative character set domain name suggestion...
Research Team
- Jun 8, 2020
- 1 min
Welcome to ישראל for Israel
The Israeli community will soon be able to register domain names entirely in Hebrew script, thanks to the approval of a new IDN ccTLD...
Research Team
- May 21, 2020
- 2 min
Country Based Evaluation of Websites for Acceptance of Email Addresses
The ICANN Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has released an evaluation of 1000 websites, assessing the way that they handle a...
Research Team
- May 18, 2020
- 1 min
Happy 10th Birthday .РФ!
On May 12, 2020 the Russian IDN top level domain .РФ, celebrated 10 years since it was delegated, alongside top level domains for Egypt,...
Research Team
- May 6, 2020
- 5 min
Promoting Universal Acceptance Cyrillic Script Countries
Maria Kolesnikova is Chief Analyst at the Russian ccTLD registry, Coordination Center for TLD.RU. She spoke to the World Report team...
Research Team
- Mar 25, 2020
- 2 min
Korea and IDNs
Asian ccTLD registries were early adopters of IDNs and have coordinated across language and script communities for more than 15 years. We...
Research Team
- Feb 28, 2020
- 4 min
Task Force on Arabic Script IDNs - Interview with ICANN's Baher Esmat
In our 2014 World Report on IDNs, we reported on the work of ICANN’s Task Force on Arabic script IDNs, an initiative of the Middle East...
Research Team
- Feb 22, 2020
- 1 min
Through Their Eyes: Indigenous Languages Online
To mark the UNESCO International Year of Indigenous languages, the IDN World Report 2019 features a special report on the online...
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