When ICANN began to allow registration of internationalized domain names—that is, domain names that use non-ASCII characters—they unwittingly opened a new method for phishing campaigns to succeed.

When used in the Domain Name System (DNS) — the internet’s address book — internationalized domain names are converted into ASCII-compatible form using a system called Punycode.

Here at TNW Middle East, we’ve received emails by the dozen with questions related to where and how domain names with Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) can be registered. The answer is, you ...

Starting in mid-November, countries and territories will be able to apply to show domain names in their native language, a major technical tweak to the Internet designed to increase language ...

We didn’t doubt that they would, but the ICANN has officially approved non-Latin character domain names.The pleasant surprise is that the system and guidelines for these internationalized domain ...

Last month, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") approved the adoption of internationalized domain names (IDNs"). IDNs are intended to replace the last portion of a ...

The recent Internet Governance Forum in Athens featured lots of talk about the way that the 'Net is run, but nothing generated more discussion than internationalized domain names (IDNs). In many ...

In an interview with the BBC, Tina Dam, ICANN's senior director for internationalized domain names, described the change as "the most significant day" since the launch of the Internet, ...

Internationalized domain names have moved a step closer to reality, following ICANN's announcement that it had successfully completed testing. Currently, domain names can be composed of just 37 ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will speed development of country-coded top-level domains and local-language scripting, the group announced Wednesday at the Internet ...

An ICANN voting session on Thursday could see internationalized domain names, trademark domain extensions and .xxx become a reality. X. Trending. The 60+ best early Presidents' Day tech deals ...

BEIJING — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages the Internet Domain Name System, this week announced plans to test a system of internationalized domain names ...