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IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Launch

October 17, 2013November 17, 2009 by nancy

16 November 2009, ICANN is pleased to announce the launch of the IDN ccTLD Track Process.

Non-English speakers across the globe will soon have access to the Internet addresses completely in their own lanuage. The Internet Corportation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization charged with overseeing the Internet’s naming and numbering systems, is today launching a process for delegating a number of internationalized top-level domains.

Brand protection and domain names

October 17, 2013October 14, 2009 by maxime

If you own a brand and want to really protect it online, a basic action would require you to buy more than 250 domain names.

280 is indeed the number of domain extensions in total:

20 generic TLD (.com, .net, .biz, .edu … to name a few)
248 country code TLD (.fr, .de, .th, .us, .uk, .ru, .cm to name a few)
1 historic extension: .arpa
11 would be extensions currently in testing phase.

So to be sure that no one can buy you brand name online, you need to register 268 domains. And then you might need to consider some common typos and hyphen versions and key product names.

Have you done it yet?