Slouching Toward Multilingual .com
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 …
Domain names
The .eu Domain is Spawning .edu Hacks
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 …
.eu: Coming to a Web Site Near You
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 …
The Danger of Internationalized Domain Names
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 …
ICANN Goes Global — Gradually
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 …
Multilingual Domain Name Redux
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 …