Recent Posts
- BREAKING: ICANN’s number two Cyrus Namazi quits. Probably due to sexual discrimination claims.
- ICANN grants Verisign its price increases, of course
- ALL .za domains have to link to government coronavirus web site
- Namecheap and others banning coronavirus domains
- Go here to help fight against coronavirus abuse
- As it releases free download, DomainTools says 68,000 dangerous coronavirus domains have been registered
- No .com price increases this year. Thanks, coronavirus!
- US officials gunning for coronavirus domains
- Nominet to intercept dangerous coronavirus domains
- An open question to the domain name industry about coronavirus
- US senators tell ICANN to reject .org deal
- More ICANN events cancelled for May
- More domain industry response to coronavirus
- .org decision delayed another month
- Delay .org deal because of… coronavirus? Gimme a break
- Not every coronavirus domain registrant is a douchebag
- Roundup: domain industry starts to respond to coronavirus pandemic
- At ICANN 67, nobody knew you’re a dog
- GoDaddy cancels in-person investor day over coronavirus fears
- WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! In other news, ICANN 67 was… “muted”
- Facebook WILL sue more registrars for cybersquatting
- ICANN chair: “all options open” on .org deal
- Could .org debate bring back the glory days of ICANN public forums?
- The latest industry C-suite musical chairs
- Poblete to replace Disspain on ICANN board
- Chinese registrars ask ICANN to waive fees due to Coronavirus
- Most languages won’t be available at ICANN 67
- Domain Incite turns 10 today. What the fuck have I done with my life?
- Ethos volunteers for .org pricing handcuffs
- Yup. ICANN cancelled Cancun
- The Queen has beef with Prince Harry’s domain name
- ICANN wants to take your temperature before letting you into ICANN 67
- ICANN might cancel Spring Break over Covid-19 fears
- Verisign shits on domainers, again
- 9,000 people tell ICANN they don’t want .com price increases. Here’s what some of them said
- Covid-19: It’s official, domainers are faster than journalists
- ICA will help you support .com price increases (but doesn’t want you to)
- .gay hires pop star equality campaigner as spokesperson
- Watch: climate change denier on why she trusts .org more than .com
- Ethos’ .org pricing promise may be misleading
- Hacking claims resurface as .hotel losers force ICANN to lawyer up again
- ICANN refuses to release more info on .org deal
- Possibly the strangest new gTLD acquisition yet
- California .org probe — existential crisis or blessed relief for ICANN?
- As Cancun looms, ICANN bans China travel because of Coronavirus
- XYZ expands gTLD stable as L’Oreal exits the domain game
- Is the .co rebid biased toward Afilias? Yeah, kinda
- Amazon governments vow revenge for “illegal and unjust” ICANN decision on .amazon
- SaveDotOrg to protest outside ICANN HQ. #lol
- Ten years ago I predicted Oscar winners wanted a .movie gTLD. Was I right?
- ICANN gets a new European chief
- New CEO to step into the lion’s den at auDA
- Secrets of the .org deal revealed, but much info remains private
- Registrar terminated after what looks like domain hijacking
- NamesCon publishes full agenda for debut Austin conference
- .gay prices and availability revealed as registry promises to give 20% of revenue to charity
- Now .org critics actually want to take over the registry, blocking billion-dollar sale
- Verisign pays ICANN $20 million and gets to raise .com prices again
- ICANN predicts shrinkage in new gTLD sector
- ASO uses super powers to demand ICANN turn over .org buyout docs
- Now PIR rubbishes .org “downtime” claims
- DI Leaders Roundtable #4 — Big predictions for 2020
- Afilias denies .org will go down post-acquisition
- Palestine to release all one-character .ps domains, at a price
- PIR thinks 20-year domain regs are a good idea
- Amazon beats South America! Dot-brand contracts now signed
- Q3 industry growth driven by .tk, .com and .icu
- ICANN throws out second .org appeal, so URS stays
- Warning (or threat?) prices must go up or .org will suffer DAYS of downtime
- Russian company approved as gTLD escrow provider
- Guy gets 14 years for trying to steal a domain with a gun
- GoDaddy girls often make more money than the men
- Non-coms want .org’s future carved in stone
- Kamel’s deputy gets promoted at ICANN
- ICANN delays approval of .org acquisition
- AlpNames died months ago. Why is it still the “most-abused” registrar?
- Ethos promises to keep .org for many many many many years
- Amid .org controversy, Cerf predicts the death of all domains
- #SaveDotOrg to hold public web conference tomorrow with Ethos execs
- As pricey .new launches, Google reveals first set of big-name users including rapper Drake
- Three more dot-brands fizzle out. Total now 69, dudes
- Are ISOC’s claims about .org’s history bogus?
- Criminal .uk suspensions down this year
- Governments kill off another gTLD bid
- Four big developments in the .org pricing scandal
- DI Leaders Roundtable #3 — What did you think of ICANN 66?
- Petition launched to fight .org deal
- ICANN board meets to consider PIR acquisition TODAY
- XYZ buys dormant gTLD from “pyramid scheme” operator
- I attempt to answer ICA’s questions about the “terrible blunder” .org acquisition
- Selling off PIR, did ISOC just throw .org registrants under a bus?
- Rival dot-brand bidders in settlement talks, seek auction delay
- ICANN going back to Puerto Rico for a third time
- Montreal airport thinks DI is porn
- DI Leaders Roundtable #2 — Should we kill off “Whois”?
- Former NTIA chief Redl now working for Amazon
- Neustar’s .co contract up for grabs
- US official Heineman joins GoDaddy
- Web.com got pwned
- Surprise! ICANN throws out complaints about .org price caps
- Somber mood as ICANN 66 opens in Montreal
- America has Amazon’s back in gTLD fight at ICANN 66
- New (kinda) geo-TLD rules laid out at ICANN 66
- Emoji domains get a 😟 after broad study
- Industry veteran Jay Daley tapped to lead IETF
- Verisign likely to get its billion-dollar .com pricing windfall
- ICANN enters talks to kill off Whois for good
- Form an orderly queue: New Zealand wants a new back-end
- Brexit hell: .eu suspension plan put on hold
- DI Leaders Roundtable #1 — How many new gTLDs will be applied for next time around?
- Now you don’t have to live in the EU to register a .eu domain, but there’s a catch
- Spam is not our problem, major domain firms say ahead of ICANN 66
- Crunch time, again, for Whois access policy
- Google quietly launches .new domains sunrise
- After .org price outrage, ICANN says it has NOT scrapped public comments
- Hindu god smites Chrysler gTLD
- Top ICANN advisor Tarek Kamel dies at 57
- Three big changes could be coming to .uk
- Introducing… the DI Leaders Roundtable
- After killing the cows, what does the new Tucows logo remind you of?
- Radix acquires another gTLD
- .whoswho survives!
- Correction: the 10 most-used dot-brands
- Nominet raises .uk prices
- Registrar suspended over dodgy transfers
First new gTLDs delegated (really!)
Kevin Murphy,
October 23, 2013, 18:50:58 (UTC),
Domain Registries
ICANN has delegated the first new gTLDs to the DNS root.
All four of the first batch of internationalized domain names appear to be present right now in root zone file:
- .xn--ngbc5azd (شبكة.) — means “.web” in Arabic. Operated by dotShabaka Registry.
- .xn--unup4y (.游戏) — means “.games” in Chinese. Operated by Donuts.
- .xn--80aswg (.сайт) — means “.site” in several Cyrillic languages. Operated by CORE Association.
- .xn--80asehdb (.онлайн) — means “.online” in several Cyrillic languages. Also operated by CORE Association.
Infuriatingly, and appropriately given the glitches that have plagued the program for the last 18 months, the news seems to have been announced unexpectedly by ICANN VP Christine Willett during a webinar that most listeners had been kicked out of due to a technical problem.
The race is now one to see which of the four will be the first to go live with a resolving web site.
As I mentioned over on http://blog.blacknight.com/new-tlds-almost.html , the first one appears to be: http://www.nic.游戏/ though it’s not configured properly yet
http://nic.сайт and http://nic.онлайн are also live.
Core WHOIS for .сайт is broken for me. Captcha fails even when entered correctly.
Just tried and works for me – there is only one domain there – nic.сайт
I’m sure Abril stated there would be no ASCII 2LD’s in .сайт and .онлайн
But yet the first one operational is an ASCII?
You are right. No ASCII second-level domains in our IDN TLDs. But, and this is a big NUT, ICANN on one hand, mandates nic.TLD to be activated. It is not an option (see point 3.1 of Specification 5 in all Agreements). We said we thought it would NOT be active in DINs not allowng Latin-script registrations, but ICANN was not impressed.
Second, due to Name Collision and the new Specification 6 to the Agreemnts, approved last week, ONLY nic.TLD can be activated. Again, we asked ICANN to allow us an additional second-level domain in Cyrillic, as mixing scripts is confusing, useless and misleading.
So we comply witth the Agreemnt we signed, that’s all. And we are frustrated, and even ashamed, to go live with this nic.сайт mess, but we had no other option.
People who only speak one language and reads one alpahbet or script, as it is the case for most people making decision in ICANN (and elsewhee) simply don’t understand why this is a problem ;-(
Sigh. Another case of ICANN not properly thinking things through, and being English/ASCII-centric. :^(
try this: http://donuts.游戏/
The doubters said the same thing about personal computing. This will be HUGE!
Companies like Google, Amazon & Top Level Domain will be the ones who really benefit through revenues in the same way as Microsoft & Appple as first movers in personal computing.
Yahoo will also be entering that space if the takeover rumours doing the rounds in the City are correct. Top Level Domain Holdings are the target being discussed in high level talks.