Re: ICANN MEETING EXPLORES TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF INDIAN LANGUAGE DOMAIN NAME
I think what we can conclude is that there are not going to be any IDN.IDN in use until early 2009. It seems clear that IDN ccTLD and IDN gTLD are not necessarily linked but will probably arrive together. I really don't think it matters too much except for Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi and Urdu, which are going to struggle to find acceptance without an IDN.IDN solution. The way things have been left is that, the whole ICANN process is going to become increasingly irrelevant to what happens on the ground. They are bureaucrats, they clearly understand nothing about marketing. The thing that has been holding everything back is the delay in the roll-out of IE7. If they wanted their product to be successful, it had to start gain traction in the first half of this year. That ain't going to happen, so the field is left largely clear for IDN.com.
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Yours RD.
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