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Why multilingual domain names
Since the beginning of the Internet, the domain name system (DNS)
has only allowed Internet addresses based on English characters.
Recent research, Forrester Research, indicates that 50% of
current Internet users speak English and by 2005 (est.) only
one-third of users will use English for online communication.
In recognition of this need for multilingual domain names, Verisign GRS has announced a testbed for Internationalised Domain Name registrations. The test bed is designed to allow registration of ASCII-encoded multilingual domain names using the Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP). Multilingual domain names can be registered as second level domains under .com, .net or .org. The multilingual domain names will be stored using Row-based ASCII-Compatible Encoding (referred to as RACE) in the Verisign GRS.
Via Melbourne IT, Web.CC and i-DNS, DomainAvenue.com accepted participation and successfully developed a multilingual client to convert a native language domain into an acceptable string that can be processed and stored by the Verisign GRS. In this regard, on October 20, 2000, Melbourne IT successfully completed the Multilingual Certification Evaluation for each of the above new languages in which Melbourne IT intends to register names.
DomainAvenue.com has now progressed to prepare the registration system to offer these languages for multilingual domain names to Business Partners and is also working closely with Melbourne IT and Verisign GRS to incorporate RRP 1.2.0 commands.
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