WorldNames, Inc. Provides Multilingual Technology to Network Solutions for .com, .net and .org Registration Services.Business/Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 2000 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, and Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), a VeriSign, Inc. company (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) ), today announced that NSI Registrar has licensed WorldNames' Multilingual Domain Name Registration Software (MLDNS(TM)) to enable the registration of non-English .com, .net, and .org domain names. NSI started registering multilingual domain names in Chinese, Japanese and Korean character sets in November as part of a testbed launched by VeriSign Global Registry Services. VeriSign GRS plans to expand its testbed to support additional languages including Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. "It's significant that NSI looked at all the competing multilingual domain name technologies and chose the WorldNames MLDNS(TM) product," said J. William Semich, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of WorldNames. "Since the license agreement also allows NSI to sublicense our technology to its Affiliates and Resellers, we expect the WorldNames' multilingual platform to quickly become a dominant technology for registering multilingual domains worldwide." Multilingual Enabling Technology Making the process smooth and reliable for the end-user, the WorldNames MLDNS system includes a Multilingual Conversion Server to support registration of non-ASCII encodings of non-English domain names; a Multilingual WHOIS Server which accepts non-ASCII local-language queries to its database and responds with both the ASCII-RACE encoding and the UNICODE encoding of the name, as well as a complete list of the customer and technical contact data as required by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers See ICANN. (body, networking) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - (ICANN) The non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system (ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number ); a Multilingual HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. Redirect technology which will redirect any non-ASCII local-language HTTP query to an active 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. Web site URL; and MLBIND, a multilingual version of the industry standard BIND 8.2.2 from the Internet Software Consortium (ISC). As part of its agreement with NSI, WorldNames will maintain compatibility with any standards for multilingual domain names as they evolve through 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) as well as requirements set by ICANN and VeriSign Global Registry Services for registration of multilingual .com, .net and .org domain names. WorldNames is also an active member of the Multilingual Internet Names Consortium (MINC). WorldNames' .NU Domain division has been accepting active registrations of multilingual Web addresses for nearly a year now at http://www.nunames.nu (using both ASCII and Latin1-European character sets) and at http://www.worldnames.net (using ASCII and all the world's active character sets including Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters), using the WorldNames MLDNS technology. Both sites are currently accepting free three-month trial registrations of multilingual .NU Domain names. 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 IETF standards such as RACE (Row-based ASCII 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 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 (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 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. Other than NSI, strategic partners and technical service providers for WorldNames, Inc. includes .NU Domain, Ltd; NameEngine, Inc.; Genuity/BBN; Telia AB; AboveNet; Telstra/Netlink; and GDNS, Inc. Current customers of WorldNames' MLDNS technologies include ICANN Certified Registrars NameEngine, Inc., NYC, YesNIC, Seoul, Korea, and eName Co. WorldNames is also providing multilingual registration services to several ccTLDs including .NU Domain, .AS, .PH and others. 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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