Last year, Montenegro split up with Serbia, becoming an independent country, as well as the 192nd member of the United Nations. This has created a bit of a headache for companies and organizations that manage things like maps and locale-dependent …
According to Associated Press, ICANN is inching closer to offering complete native-language domain names. Now what does this mean? There are two ways to offer an “internationalized” domain name. The easy way, which is now available commercially, is to offer …
I should have seen this one coming. According to Bret Fausett’s blog, the .eu domain is being registered by individuals hoping to capitalize on Web users who leave off the “d” when typing in their favorite college URL. For example, …
According to this article ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) just gave the European Union the green light for using the .eu domain name. I first wrote about the new .eu domain back in October and I …
Michael Kaplan explains one of the major dangers of internatinalized domain names (IDNs): phishing. One of the tactics that phishers use to con people is to create URLs that look like reputable URLs (citibank.com; ebay.com) yet really aren’t. They do …
Since its inception, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has been criticized for favoring the U.S. over other countries. But with a new president in office, Australian Paul Twomey — the first non-U.S. citizen to be president — …
It has been roughly a year since RealNames imploded, bringing down with it a service that had supported the resolution of multilingual domain names. The implosion was a big blow to Verisign because it was making money off the registration …