WorldNames, Inc. and NameEngine Partner to Deliver Multilingual Domain Names in .COM, .NET and .ORG; MultiLingual Domain Name Service Up and Running in Less Than 36 Hours.Business/Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2000 WorldNames, Inc., a leading provider of domain name infrastructure services and multilingual technologies and NameEngine, the global domain name registrar An organization that manages Internet domain names. Any person or company that wants a presence on the Internet must register a unique name with one of the many registrars, such as Network Solutions (www.netsol.com) or Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com). for brand professionals, today announced an agreement to deliver multilingual domain names to Internet users around the world. Under the agreement NameEngine has licensed WorldNames' industry leading MultiLingual Domain Name System (MLDNS(TM)) to qualify to register .COM, .NET and .ORG domain names using local language character sets, beginning with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. NameEngine's sister company RegisterFree.com will also license the leading-edge technology. The ability to utilize local language domain names in China, Japan and Korea will dramatically change the marketing opportunities for companies in these countries. Using local-language characters will basically eliminate the language barrier on the Internet currently being faced by the millions of non-English speaking Internet users. "WorldNames' MLDNS technology has been up and running around the world for nearly a year," said Antony Van Couvering, president of NameEngine. "That experience, together with their ability to get multilingual capability up and running in less that 36 hours, was paramount to our decision to utilize their industry leading technology. We have to assure our clients that we have the means to help them protect their brands on the Internet, in any language. Using WorldNames' technology, we can help protect our clients who have brands with non-Roman characters." "As the first 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 Certified Registrar to launch support for registering and managing multilingual .COM, .NET and .ORG domain names, NameEngine has taken a giant leap ahead of other Internet brand management services," 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, Inc. According to Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris, who serves as technical advisor to WorldNames, Inc., "We are glad to be providing multilingual technology to the .COM, .NET and .ORG world. It's high time that we all got serious about internationalization. Maybe a bit of running code will help push along the acceptance of the standards." Dr. Mockapetris is 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 Internet's Domain Name System. 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 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) ), for multilingual domain name registrations (see http://www.nsiregistry.com/multilingual/announce/techinfo.html). WorldNames, Inc.'s MultiLingual 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 system has been under development for over a year, and is currently being used to accept complete multilingual domain name registrations and to provide DNS services for the .NU and .AS top level domains, with support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Greek, Cyrillic and all other non-English language character sets supported by the UNICODE standard. WorldNames is participating in the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) IDN working group responsible for developing standards for multilingual technology, and is a founding member of the Multilingual Internet Name Consortium (MINC MINC Multilingual Internet Names Consortium MINC Multicast-based Inference of Network-internal Characteristics MINC Military-Industrial Complex MINC Management Interactive Network Connection (USDA) ). Based on UNICODE and ISO-10646/UTF8, MLDNS(TM) has been designed to easily migrate to any multilingual DNS standard adopted by the IETF. 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, 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 About NameEngine NameEngine, Inc., based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , provides major corporations with superior tools and intelligence to protect and use their brands on the Internet. NameEngine's clients include 3Com, Adobe, Avon, Citigroup, Colgate-Palmolive, Estee Lauder, DLJdirect, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Goodyear, J.P. Morgan, MTVi, Symantec and many others. See http://www.nameengine.com. |
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