Verisign Approves WorldNames Multilingual Technology for Registration of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Domain Names in Testbed.Business/Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2000 The Same Software That Supports .NU Domain's Multilingual Web Address Registrations Can Now Be Used For .com, .net and .org Registrations in VeriSign's Multilingual Domain Names Testbed Worldnames, Inc., a leader in multilingual Internet domain name An organization's unique name on the Internet. The chosen name combined with a top level domain (TLD), such as .com or .org, also called a "domain extension," makes up the Internet domain name. For example, computerlanguage.com is the domain name for the publisher of this Encyclopedia. registration and infrastructure services, today announced that VeriSign Global Registry Services (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : VRSN VRSN Verisign, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) VRSN Version Number (NEC) ), formerly NSI See Network Solutions. NSI - Network Solutions, Inc. Registry, has certified WorldNames' multilingual domain name registration technology as compatible with its Multilingual Domain Name Testbed. WorldNames has been providing multilingual registration and 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 services for its .NU Domain division for the past ten months using the same patent-pending technology. ".NU Domain was the first 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. to offer complete UNICODE-based multilingual domain name registration and live Web Address services starting 10 months ago," said WorldNames President J. William Semich. " And now .NU is the first and only ccTLD using a multilingual registration technology which has been certified as compatible with the VeriSign multilingual testbed." VeriSign recently notified WorldNames that it had successfully completed the multilingual operational test and evaluation (testing) operational test and evaluation - (OT&E) Formal testing conducted prior to deployment to evaluate the operational effectiveness and suitability of the system with respect to its mission. in Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Japanese and Korean (CJK) for testbed registrations of CJK domain names using the .com, .net and .org Top Level Domains. VeriSign recently announced that on November 10, 2000, its testbed will begin accepting registrations of .com, .net and .org domain names which use Chinese, Japanese and Korean language character sets. These testbed registrations will initially be registered in "HOLD" status. WorldNames is currently providing its complete multilingual registration and DNS system and services to ICANN-accredited Registrars who wish to participate in the Verisign Multilingual Testbed process (see http://www.worldnames.net/press/pressreleases.cfm). In partnership with NameEngine, Inc., an ICANN-accredited Registrar, WorldNames will begin accepting Asian-CJK language .com, .net and .org testbed registrations at its Website, http://www.worldnames.net on the afternoon of November 9th, US East Coast time. WorldNames is also recruiting resellers to participate in its registration services for the Multilingual Domain Names Testbed. WorldNames Technology WorldNames' patent-pending MLDNS(TM) is Unicode-based and supports all the established multilingual encoding standards, including ISO- iso- or is- pref. 1. Equal; uniform: isobar. 2. Isomeric: isopropyl. 3. 10646 (UTF-8), which has been adopted by Microsoft (in its Windows ME and Windows 2000 operating systems and Internet Explorer browsers), Netscape (in Netscape 6) and the Unicode Consortium, as well as emerging ASCII-based universal encoding draft standards such as RACE (Row-based ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. Compatible Encoding - see http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-race-01.txt), and any of the requirements set by VeriSign Global Registry Services, a VeriSign Company (NASDAQ: VRSN), for multilingual domain name registrations (see http://www.nsiregistry.com/multilingual/announce/techinfo.html). About WorldNames WorldNames, Inc., a US-based private corporation, provides Internet DNS applications services to the Top Level Domain registry and registrar business community. The company was launched to provide cost-efficient DNS technical support, infrastructure support and applications services to gTLDs and to ccTLDs which are migrating to a more commercial structure. Strategic partners and technical service providers for WorldNames, Inc. includes .NU Domain, Ltd; NameEngine, Inc.; Genuity/BBN; Telia AB; AboveNet; Telstra/Netlink; and GDNS Gdns abbr (in street names) (= Gardens) → Str. , Inc. For examples of WorldNames Multilingual Web Address Services on the Internet or to register your own Multilingual Web Address(TM)see: http://www.worldnames.net |
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