..on Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:01:30PM +1300, Douglas Bagnall wrote: > Julian Oliver wrote: > > > .. beginning November, TLD's to follow. > > > > http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091030/ap_on_hi_te/as_tec_internet_names > > http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-30oct09-en.htm > > > > (btw I just registered 微软.com, 苹果.com and 热的汽车.com) > > > No you didn't. According to whois, people have been squatting on the > first two since 2004 and 2000.
Hehe of course they have. They're the Simplified Chinese equivalents of apple.com, microsoft.com and hotcars.com ;) > The new thing is the opening up and internationalisation of top level > domains, so countries can apply for TLDs in their local languages. That > means there will one day be a .māori (or .maori, which is arguably more > sensible if you want people to type in your domain name). > Yes, the article above says that's a couple of years away but nonetheless sure to happen. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
