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Greece gets an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN)

May 7, 2015 by John Yunker

Greece has received string approval for an IDN, shown below in red: This brings to 35 the number countries with approved IDNs — and an impressive range of scripts, shown here: I’ve just …

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Categories Country Codes, Global navigation, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), Languages

Macedonia gets an IDN: мкд

April 18, 2014 by John Yunker

Lately I’ve been writing about all those new non-Latin generic TLDs. But countries are still in the process of acquiring the local-script equivalents of their country codes. Last week, Macedonia (.mk) …

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Categories Global navigation, IDN (Intl. Domain Name)

GoDaddy going global

May 29, 2013 by John Yunker

In this interview with Blake Irving, CEO of GoDaddy, he mentions the company’s focus on expanding global reach: We’re localizing, globalizing and marketizing our code base which means we’re building …

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Categories Country Codes, GoDaddy, IDN (Intl. Domain Name)

ICANN strikes domain name gold (updated)

September 12, 2012June 13, 2012 by John Yunker

The registration period for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), names like .google and .nyc, has been open for a short while and it appears that ICANN has won the lottery. According …

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Categories Apple, Arabic, Country Codes, Google, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), Microsoft

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