The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that Qatar has received approval to have its internet domains written in Arabic, one of the first countries in the world to receive approval to use non-Latin language scripts in domain names. Once implemented, Internet Domains ending in the Arabic equivalent of “.qatar”( “.قطر”) can...
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In a news release on 12 March 2010 after ICANN’s 37th International meeting in Nairobi, ICANN announces the ICANN Board agreed to post process options to reconsider the proposed controversial .XXX sponsored top-level domain within the next two weeks. A decision on the process is scheduled to occur at or before ICANN’s next international meeting...
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Canon announces its has officially started the necessary procedures to obtain the gTLD (generic Top Level Domain) of “.canon” from ICANN. Canon believes a gTLD “.canon” is more intuitive and easier to memorized then “canon.com”. The gTLD “.canon” will be used as the brand platform for users, consumers and other stakeholders from all parts...
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