Yesterday IASON detected the presence of 11 new top-level domains (TLD) in the ICANN/IANA namespace:
XN–0ZWM56D (or 测试) XN–11B5BS3A9AJ6G (or परीक्षा) XN–80AKHBYKNJ4F (or испытание) XN–9T4B11YI5A (or 테스트) XN–DEBA0AD (or טעסט) XN–G6W251D (or 測試) XN–HGBK6AJ7F53BBA (or آزمایشی) XN–HLCJ6AYA9ESC7A (or பரிட்சை) XN–JXALPDLP (or δοκιμή) XN–KGBECHTV (or إختبار)
XN–ZCKZAH (or テスト)
Well, these are not normal (ASCII) TLDs, but TLDs in Punycode form, and representing different, non-Roman, foreign character sets (Chinese, Hindi, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, Chinese, Persian, Tamil, Modern Greek, Arabic, and Japanese respectively).
According to Dr Joe Baptista’s data, “ICANN/IANA have entered the new TLDs into the zone file but have failed to provide whois data for each one.”
WHOIS data is used to determine the owner of a second-level domain (SLD) or top-level domain (TLD). WHOIS data may be missing because the new internationalized domain names (IDN) that ICANN/IANA has introduced really belong to no one, and are thus purely experimental.
Cesidian Root IDNs are not experimental, on the other hand, and have been resolving for quite some time now in the Cesidian Root.
With these TLDs, the ICANN/IANA namespace now has 281 Top-level domains. The Cesidian Root resolves an additional 50 TLDs (331 TLDs in total), distributed as follows: Cesidian Root proper (24 TLDs), China Ministry of Information Industry (MII) Root (3 TLDs), Arabic Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Root (4 TLDs), and i-DNS.net Root (19 TLDs).
For more information:
Cesidian Root 11 Press Street South Floral Park, NY 11001
Email: ct@cesidianroot.com
URL: http://cesidianroot.com Tel: +1 516 354 4495 Fax: +1 516 706 0080
Contact: Most Rev Dr Cesidio Tallini
Source: Free Press Release Article – October 11th, 2008 – http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200710/1192030651.html
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