Online, AsiaWeek, 24 December 1999 -- Surfing the Web is about to get a whole lot simpler for many of Asia's
non-English speakers. Shunning the Roman alphabet, Singapore firm i-DNS
(www.i-dns.net) has developed what it calls the Internationalized
Domain Names System (i-DNS) - allowing web addresses to be registered
in non-English characters for the first time. This month Taiwan Internet
service provider TimeNet (www.timenet.net) began offering dot-coms
in Chinese and picked up customers at a rate of one per second. A total
of 90,000 domains were snapped up in one week, with multinationals
like Coca-Cola and Internet firms like Chinadotcom getting in early
to beat the cybersquatters. i-DNS, which grew out of a National
University of Singapore research project, can also handle a further
35 languages, including Japanese, Korean, Arabic and India scripts.
--
i-DNS.net shall not be held liable for the views and opinions of the authors expressed
herein.
このページは現在日本語でのご提供は行っておりません。
ご迷惑をおかけいたしますが、今しばらくお待ちいただきたくお願いいたします。
