.NU Domain and Telia Forge Colocation Partnership to Build UNICODE Domain Name Infrastructure.Business/Technology Editors MEDFIELD, Mass. and HANINGE, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2000 .NU Domain Will Operate Systems Supporting Local Language Characters Like A, A, O,-D, and N in its Web Addresses at Telia's New Colocation Site in Haninge, Sweden .NU Domain Ltd (www.nunames.nu), one of the fastest growing Top Level Domains (TLDs) on the Internet, and Telia AB, Sweden's largest Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. and the leading supplier of telecom-based information services See Information Systems. in the Nordic/Baltic region, today announced a colocation partnership which will strengthen .NU Domain's infrastructure in Sweden and throughout Europe. As a first step in developing the partnership, Telia will be providing connectivity and colocation services at its new large-scale colocation site in Haninge, Sweden, for .NU Domain's Internationalized Domain Name An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that (potentially) contains non-ASCII characters. Such domain names could contain letters with diacritics, as required by many European languages, or characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or (IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) A .com or .net domain name that is represented in non-English characters and symbols, with .com and .net appended at the end in English letters. ) services. .NU's NUBIND(TM) IDN service supports UNICODE character sets, including the Swedish letters A, A, and O in .NU Web addresses. .NU Domain is the only TLD (Top Level Domain) The highest level domain category in the Internet domain naming system. There are two types: the generic top level domains (gTLDs) such as .com, .org, and .net, and the country codes, such as .ca, .uk and .jp. See gTLD and Internet domain name. in the world that supports UNICODE internationalized domain names. The unique service was developed under the guidance of .NU Domain technical advisor Dr. Paul V Paul V, 1552–1621, pope (1605–21), a Roman named Camillo Borghese; successor of Leo XI. He was created cardinal (1596) by Clement VIII and was renowned for his knowledge of canon law. . Mockapetris, former chairman of the Internet standards body, the IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force , and the inventor of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS (Domain Name System) A system for converting host names and domain names into IP addresses on the Internet or on local networks that use the TCP/IP protocol. For example, when a Web site address is given to the DNS either by typing a URL in a browser or behind the ). NUBIND(TM) is currently undergoing Beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the and is expected to become widely available for .NU domain customers to test in the next few weeks. Customers in Sweden who's Internet Service Providers do not yet support NUBIND(TM) will be able to point their Internet browsers to the .NU name server at Telia (ns0.telia.nic.nu) in order to obtain access to the service. NUBIND(TM) is also compatible with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.0 and with Microsoft's new version of the NT operating system, Windows 2000, which shipped to users last month. "Microsoft has built in the capability for Windows 2000 DNS to support UNICODE domain names in the same manner as NUBIND(TM) does," said J. William Semich, president of .NU Domain Ltd, "so any business that decides to use our internationalized domain names can use the shipping version of Windows 2000 DNS as their local name server." "We selected Telia as our European service provider because of its extensive international backbone," added Semich, "and its ability to provide fault tolerant, mission critical, high-performance, secure Internet management services necessary to support NUBIND(TM)." .NU Domain's long term plans call for duplication of all of its US-based production systems and registry services at Telia's new high-capacity co-location facility in Haninge, Sweden. "We are very pleased that technology leader .NU Domain has selected Telia for collocation of its online transaction systems and TLD name servers," said Anders Tillander, President Telia Internet Partner. "Telia's international presence and ability to offer managed services to our customers, makes Telia the ideal partner to ensure that .NU Domain brings the highest level of fault tolerance, 7-by-24 technical support and capacity to its users." About .NU Domain Ltd .NU Domain Ltd, a US-based private corporation, offers the only competitive alternative to Network Solutions Inc.'s. (Nasdaq:NSOL) .com domain name. .NU Domain Ltd targets end users and the small office/home office See SOHO. (SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. ) market, as well as Internet users in countries with restrictions on the domain name registration process. The .NU domain is one of the fastest growing TLDs on the Internet. Current .NU registered customers are located in dozens of counties throughout the world, including Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, Norway, Italy, the UK, Spain, Brazil, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Finland, Indonesia, Belgium, Singapore, France, the Canary Islands, Australia, Canada and the Philippines, as well as the US. The list of registered .NU domain names ranges from names registered by large corporations including, International Data Group Corp. at http://www.idg.nu, The Coca-Cola Bottling Company at http://www.coca-cola.nu, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. at http://www.goodyear.nu, and Telia's Yellow Pages site http://www.gulasidorna.nu to personal sites like the Swedish floor ball team Sodra Karr at http://www.sodrakarr.nu .NU Domain Ltd also offers domain name parking services for customers who need to lock in a domain name but have no immediate plans to use it, the .NU InstantWeb Forwarding Service that provides URL forwarding for your .NU domain name to a GeoCities, Tripod or other Web site without a unique domain name, and .NU InstantMail Forwarding so AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , GeoCities, Hotmail and other mail service users can have a unique .NU mail address. You can visit .NU Domain Ltd on the World Wide Web at http://www.nunames.nu. About Telia Telia is the leading supplier of telecom-based information services in the Nordic/Baltic region. At the same time, "seamless" pan-European and global services are being realized through powerful alliances and partnerships in Europe and around the world. Telia employs more than 30,600 people in Sweden and worldwide and is one of the largest corporate groups in Scandinavia. |
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