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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">IDN bids from non-US companies were 3%
of the bids. An international shift?<br>
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Le 26/10/13 20:41, McTim a écrit :<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 2:18 PM, JFC Morfin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jefsey@jefsey.com"><jefsey@jefsey.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">At 10:15 26/10/2013, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a> wrote:
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No one would have bet a penny on a
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<pre wrap="">failure either. 5 years ago already: today ICANN has produced its first
vanity TLDs
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-23oct13-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-23oct13-en.htm</a>).
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How can you be pro-lingusitic diversity AND call them vanity TLDs:
The four strings delegated are:
شبكة (xn--ngbc5azd) – Arabic for "web/network"
Registry: International Domain Registry Pty. Ltd.
онлайн (xn--80asehdb) – Cyrillic for "online"
Registry: CORE Association
сайт (xn--80aswg) – Cyrillic for "site"
Registry: CORE Association
游戏(xn--unup4y) – Chinese for "game(s)"
Registry: Spring Fields, LLC
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