dotYou International | For Your Language

Domain names, like www.google.com, were originally designed only to support ASCII characters, e.g.,a-z, 0-9 and the hyphen. An Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that is in non-Latin characters, such as those used in the Russian, Arabic or Chinese languages.

Right now, IDNs will only be allowed on a limited basis involving country code Top-Level Domains, which are the designators at the end of an address name, such as .rf, which is Cyrillic denoting “Russian Federation.” Eventually, the use of IDNs will be vastly expanded to all types of Internet address names.

Applicants Notified, Now When’s the Reveal?

May 10, 2012 | author: Lane Joplin |

Tags: gTLDs, ICANN

Just shy of a full month of TAS being offline, ICANN has announced they have notified all users who could were affected by the glitch on April 12th. ICANN notified users in four categories:

Users who did not have file names or usernames viewed
Users who had one or more file names and/or user names that may have been viewed by another user
Users who may have seen the file names and/or usernames of one or more other users
Users who had one or more file names and/or user names that may have been viewed, and who also may have been able to see file name and/or username information of other users

What we will still be waiting for is the “reveal date.” If ICANN continues with the timeframe set forth in April, an anticipated reveal date would two weeks after the TAS closes, if there are no other unexpected hiccups.

With the step of notifying applicants, ICANN can now work towards a date to reopen the TAS for applications. The anticipated date for reopening is 22 May 2012 with a closing date of 30 May 2012.

TAS Interruption Continued

April 30, 2012 | author: Lane Joplin |

Tags: ICANN, TAS

As of 27 April, the TAS system will remain down for the time being. ICANN will not reopen the TAS system until they are able to notify all applicants who were affected by the 11 April glitch. This is a consuming process.

“To do that, we are reviewing internal system logs and full packet-level capture of all traffic to and from the application system from 12 January through 12 April.”~ICANN

Once all affected applicants have been notified, it appears the TAS system will be scheduled to be reopened.