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Hiro Hotta (representing Japan’s .jp registry)
"Hotta said that IDNs are gaining widespread acceptance with Japan’s .jp extension. He noted that since Microsoft announced in December 2004 that the IDN enabled Internet Explorer 7 browser was coming, the number of .jp IDNs registered jumped from 40,000 to over 125,000 today. He added that the IDN.jp segment is growing at 10% annually with a renewal rate above 80% (and as high as 90% among Japanese citizens). "
Ms. Dam said that ICANN is currently focused on implementing full native character set addresses for IDNs (meaning that the full domain name and extension would be available in the local alphabet – today IDN’s have the name in the local script with the extension in Latin characters like .com or .net). She said there are still a few technical issues to be resolved but ICANN is trying to fast track that.
Dam also said that a revision of the protocol that handles IDNs is coming that may result in characters from some scripts being removed. In those cases, existing domains with the deleted characters will no longer work, so they are working on minimizing dislocations caused by that. Dam said no target date has been set for full IDN (including extension) availability though she is thinking late 2007 or early 2008 is possible.
http://www.dnjournal.com/articles/events/domainfestglobal2007-page2.htm
"Hotta said that IDNs are gaining widespread acceptance with Japan’s .jp extension. He noted that since Microsoft announced in December 2004 that the IDN enabled Internet Explorer 7 browser was coming, the number of .jp IDNs registered jumped from 40,000 to over 125,000 today. He added that the IDN.jp segment is growing at 10% annually with a renewal rate above 80% (and as high as 90% among Japanese citizens). "
Ms. Dam said that ICANN is currently focused on implementing full native character set addresses for IDNs (meaning that the full domain name and extension would be available in the local alphabet – today IDN’s have the name in the local script with the extension in Latin characters like .com or .net). She said there are still a few technical issues to be resolved but ICANN is trying to fast track that.
Dam also said that a revision of the protocol that handles IDNs is coming that may result in characters from some scripts being removed. In those cases, existing domains with the deleted characters will no longer work, so they are working on minimizing dislocations caused by that. Dam said no target date has been set for full IDN (including extension) availability though she is thinking late 2007 or early 2008 is possible.
http://www.dnjournal.com/articles/events/domainfestglobal2007-page2.htm
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