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Survey on Internationalized Domain Name

22 Jun 2010

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commision (MCMC) and .my DOMAIN REGISTRY are conducting a Survey on Internationalized Domain Name (IDN).

The abbreviation of IDN stands for Internationalized Domain Name, also called a multilingual domain name. An IDN is a domain name that contains Unicode characters and you are no longer restricted A-Z. In other words, Internationalized Domain Names may in letters with diacritics ex: (façade) as required by many European languages or characters drawn from non-Latin scripts such as Jawi, Tamil and Chinese. (e.g: 马来西亚.idn.my , مليسيا.my)

The primary objective of this IDN market survey is to study the readiness of the Malaysian local internet community in accepting IDN in general with Jawi, Chinese and Tamil domain names in particular.
 

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