Webnames Domain Name News points to a recent letter from WIPO to ICANN, expressing concern about a proposed new dispute resolution provider that proposes to offer an appeals process.
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Multilingual Domain Name Delay a Barrier to Net Diversity
My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) focuses on the delays associated with establishing multilingual domain names (often referred to as internationalized domain names). Since their inception, domain names have been largely confined to ASCII text, based on a Roman character set used in the English language. While this works well for people familiar with those characters, thousands of other language characters – from French accents to the Greek alphabet to Japanese Kanji – are not represented. This creates a significant access barrier for non-English speakers, who are forced to use the Roman characters for most aspects of their Internet addressing.
Multilingual Domain Name Delay A Barrier to Net Diversity
Appeared in the Toronto Star on June 4, 2007 as It's Time to Support a Multilingual Web Imagine if each time a Canadian Internet user entered an email or website address, they would be required to include a Chinese or Cyrillic character. For millions of non-English speakers around the world, […]
CIRA Trashes ICANN’s Transparency Consultation
Earlier this week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers launched a public consultation on its performance. The global manager of the domain name system asked the public to comment on whether it has become more transparent and accessible as well as whether it has increased international participation. CIRA, […]
Whois Policy Reform Advances
The Associated Press reports this week on ICANN developments involving the Whois reform. The Whois database, which displays domain name registrant information including names, addresses, phone numbers, postal and email addresses, has been the subject of years of debate within ICANN as many in the Internet community have expressed concerns […]