Companies Can Now Include the Copyright and Registered Trademark Symbols in Their .COM Domain Names at WWW.WorldNames.Net.Business/Technology Editors MEDFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2001 VeriSign to Start Accepting Symbols Such as (R) (c) in .COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. , .NET and .ORG Domains as Part of Final Multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual adj. 1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary. 2. Testbed Implementation WorldNames, Inc.(www.worldnames.net) a leader in multilingual Internet domain registration and infrastructure services today announced that it is now accepting pre-registrations for domain names in .com, .net and .org that can use hundreds of previously forbidden symbols, including (c), (R) and E (Euro sign This article is about the euro sign ( € ). For the euro currency, see euro. The euro sign (€) is the currency sign used for the euro currency. The currency sign was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996. )(1). The company also announced it is now accepting pre-registrations for Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Vietnamese, and all other UNICODE character sets used by all the world's living languages for domain names in .com, .net and .org. These pre-registrations are being taken in conjunction with VeriSign Global Registry Services' multilingual testbed. WorldNames is one of only a handful of companies whose multilingual domain name registration technology has been certified by VeriSign as acceptable to be used to register non-English .com, .net and .org domain names in VeriSign's multilingual testbed. VeriSign recently announced that starting April 19th, it would open its multilingual testbed for .com, .net and .org to allow registration of all the world's languages, along with more than 2,000 non-alphanumeric punctuation punctuation [Lat.,=point], the use of special signs in writing to clarify how words are used; the term also refers to the signs themselves. In every language, besides the sounds of the words that are strung together there are other features, such as tone, accent, and signs and other symbols. For a list of the newly acceptable symbols, see http://www.worldnames.net/unicode/unicode.htm. Until now symbols were not accepted in domain names. "This milestone provides organizations the ability to include symbols such as copyright (c) and registered trademark (R) within its domain name," said J. William Semich, president of WorldNames. "Although this is a great opportunity for companies to expand their branding on the Internet," Semich added. "It may also cause additional concerns in the intellectual property community, since there is no requirement that registrants own a copyright or have a registered trademark in order to use these symbols in their domain names." To give its own customers first choice, WorldNames has also started accepting live registrations of all these symbols for its Multilingual Web Address service in the .NU Top Level Domain, which will become active starting on Tuesday, April 17th, 2001. (For an example, see http://www.coke(R).nu, starting April 17). To resolve any potential trademark claims, WorldNames has subscribed to ICANN's and the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO World Intellectual Piracy Organization (satire website) WIPO Write in Poll Option WIPO Wing Information Protection Office (USAF) ) Universal Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP UDRP Uniform Domain-name Dispute-Resolution Policy ). WorldNames first started processing Chinese, Japanese and Korean .com, .net and .org domain name registrations through VeriSign on November 9, 2000, when VeriSign Global Registry Services (formerly NSI See Network Solutions. NSI - Network Solutions, Inc. Registry) initially opened its multilingual domain name registration test-bed to just Asian language registrations. In February 2001 it began accepting European (Latin1), Greek, Armenian and Cyrillic registrations. WorldNames developed its patent pending multilingual domain name system (MLDNS(TM)) in late 1999 and early 2000 under guidance of WorldNames technical adviser, Dr. Paul Mockapetris Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris is the inventor of the Domain Name System. In 1983, he proposed a Domain Name System (DNS) architecture in RFCs 882 and 883 while at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California. , former chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force (c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA, www.ietf.org) Founded in 1986, the IETF is a non-membership, open, voluntary standards organization dedicated to identifying problems and opportunities in IP data networks and proposing technical solutions to the (IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force ) and the inventor of the domain name system. Since then the company has registered thousands of non-English .NU domain names, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Nordic, and other European languages, both as multilingual Web Addresses in the .NU top level domain and, limited so far just to Asian and European names, in the VeriSign GRS GRS Graduate School (universities) GRS Great Red Spot (feature of Jupiter) GRS Gender Reassignment Surgery GRS Gamma Ray Spectrometer GRS Graduation Rate Survey GRS General Records Schedules multilingual test bed .com, .net and .org top level domains. Customers whose pre-registered Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Vietnamese, and other multilingual domain names are not accepted for registration by VeriSign on April 19, 2001 will receive a refund of their $60 registration fee. WorldNames will also charge a non-refundable processing fee of $5.00 for each pre-registration. About WorldNames WorldNames is a private US-incorporated Internet infrastructure provider with international technical operations in the Boston managed by Verio and Harvardnet, in Stockholm, Sweden managed by Telia, in Frankfurt, Germany managed by AboveNet and in Wellington, 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. managed by Telstra. Visit the WorldNames site at http://www.worldnames.net. (1) PLEASE NOTE: The actual symbol for the Euro Sign is not transmittable to databases. Please see http://www.worldnames.net for the actual symbol sign. |
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