Hi: The information in your article is incorrect regarding registrar.com. As of yesturday there were 3,072 multilingual domains registered using the RACE encoding method i.e. bq-- as a prefix. Of these only 466 were registered by register.com. Not thousands. At best INNERWISE is the leader in registrations. > 14 DOMAINPEOPLE, INC. > 161 DOTSTER, INC. > 1 HANGANG SYSTEMS, INC. D/B/A DOREGI.COM > 2 IHOLDINGS.COM, INC. D/B/A DOTREGISTRAR.COM > 1,796 INNERWISE, INC. D/B/A ITSYOURDOMAIN.COM > 158 MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE > 124 NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. > 466 REGISTER.COM, INC. > 18 SPEEDNAMES, INC. > 331 TUCOWS.COM, INC. > ===== > 3,072 TOTAL On Thu, 9 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > F - MULTILINGUAL DOMAIN DEPLOYMENT IS PREMATURE > The Internet Society 'believes the commercial test bed is premature under > the technical standards of the Internet' - Verisign moves forward. ICANN > denounces pre-registration of domain names - Register.com pre-registers > thousands of multilingual names. Beijing has lodged a complaint with the > ICANN over the registration of Chinese domain names - ICANN rides > Verisign's 'progress' coat-tails, implies Internet Society coordination, > claims multilingual domains could bring 'very significant changes to the > way the DNS can be used.' Messy messy messy. > CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4742 -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot.god/
