Hi Ahmed, I've had a look through CloudFlare's customers and we see thousands of IDN's, but this is nothing compared to what exists in pre-existing romanized domains.
For a pre-existing company to move to a IDN, or any new domain in general, they have to revamp their presence, re-market to everyone to make sure they visit the correct address. I assume this isn't an easy task. I suspect you'll see new starters coming out from the get-go with an IDN, but it'll take a while for the existing content to start adoption. Cheers, Tom On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Ahmed Abu-Abed <[email protected]> wrote: > ICANN is in the news with the new شبكة TLD, see > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24637673 > > I am yet to see Arabic TLDs widely implemented, although most browsers are > ready, even on iOS and Android which I tested with an Arabic URL. Any idea > on why is the delay in implementing Arabic URL by content providers > (newspapers, etc.) ? People in the region prefer Arabic websites, so I am > wondering what’s stopping content providers from having Arabic URLs. > > Also, anyone know if major portals, like Google or Yahoo, have implemented > IDNs in any language for their URL ? Something like ياهو.شبكة (which > translates to Yahoo.net , as I cannot find an equivalent to .com as an > Arabic TLD). > > Best Regards, > Ahmed Abu-Abed > > > _______________________________________________ > Menog mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.menog.org/mailman/listinfo/menog > >
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