At iWantMyName we strongly believe in an open and inclusive internet for all people on this planet. Hence we are always happy to support new technical developments that move us towards a truly internationlized web. We are making a special effort to roll out new services that enable multi-lingual functionality across the global web infrastructure, as these services become available.
Although it may still take a while until we will see localized versions of the .COM, .NET or .ORG suffixes, ICANN is making steady progress in pursuing changes to introduce internationalized country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) such as .РФ (.RF - Russian Federation) or .бг (.bg - Bulgaria) with a possible start date as early as 2010.
.NAME introduces IDN registration
As a further step to tear down language barriers on the web VeriSign, the domain registry for .NAME, enables the registration of internationalized web addresses with non-latin characters beneath this domain extension. From Nov 7th, you will be able to search and register domains in the same language scripts (e.g. Arabic, Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese or Japanese) as it is already possible for .COM and .NET web addresses.
IDN resources & domain tools:
Get your own name domain in your local language as soon as they become available.
