NeuStar Launches Chinese and Japanese Language Domain Names in .BIZ TLD

[DavyBUK]

STERLING, Va., March 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeuStar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) announced today that it has deployed internationalized domain names (IDNs) for both the Chinese and the Japanese languages in the .BIZ top- level Internet domain. Interested registrants will be able to secure .BIZ domain names using these characters as of April 21, 2007.

.BIZ IDNs enable companies and for-profit organizations worldwide to register domain names in their languages of choice. NeuStar has offered .BIZ IDNs in Spanish, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish since November 2006, and in German since 2004.

NeuStar's Chinese and Japanese IDN offerings make available more than 19,000 Han and 178 Katakana and Hiragana characters, which are commonly used in China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, and in Chinese and Japanese communities around the world. The complete Chinese and Japanese language tables can be found online at http://www.neustar-registry.biz/idn.

"China and Japan are two of the world's largest markets for IDNs, and BIZ is the first global domain to implement Chinese and Japanese IDNs in a manner that fully respects the linguistic cultures of both language groups," commented Richard Tindal, vice president of domain name services at NeuStar. "With IDNs becoming more prevalent, we expect that .BIZ will become an essential component of every savvy international company's media mix, particularly among firms with large Chinese- and Japanese-speaking customer bases. Because .BIZ is a generic TLD, it is global in scope, and can reach businesses that operate in these languages anywhere around the world."

NeuStar's Chinese and Japanese IDN offerings in .BIZ not only help protect intellectual property rights and brand consistency through the bundling of like names, but also mitigate homographic and "spoofing" attacks across the two widely-used language groups, which share a large repertoire of Han characters. Further, NeuStar's solution reinforces the company's commitment to adhere to the recommendations put forth by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the China Network Information Center (CNNIC), Japan Registry Service Co. Ltd. (JPRS) and the Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC).

All IDN names in .BIZ can be registered in one- to 10-year increments, and will be available on a "first come, first served" basis from accredited .BIZ registrars. IDNs in .BIZ work in all major Web browsers including Internet Explorer 7, Firefox and Safari.

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[Alphamale]

Using the Industry Approved Crapness Scale, where would you say Asian idn.biz fit in?

.com
cctld
.net
.tv
.org
.cc
.ws

[domainguru]

Originally Posted by Alphamale

Using the Industry Approved Crapness Scale, where would you say Asian idn.biz fit in?

.com
cctld
.net
.tv
.org
.cc
.ws

.com
cctld
.net
.tv
.org
.biz
.cc
.ws

[Rubber Duck]

Dot Biz may not be massive but Chinese and Japanese are.

For those that have "missed the boat" on dot com, this is a good opportunity to pick up something and should raise a lot of interest.

[Wot]

It will be interesting to see if this creates a mini landrush among newbie IDN'ers who want to get their feet wet with good keywords and the established minority - us - who will try to ensure they don't.

Could really spark much more interest in IDN's because of the publicity it will generate.
.

[Alphamale]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Dot Biz may not be massive but Chinese and Japanese are.

For those that have "missed the boat" on dot com, this is a good opportunity to pick up something and should raise a lot of interest.

I have never in my idn life seen an ascii Asian .biz - this should have caution written all over it.

.. anyway gotta go, need to compile keyword list for April 21

The major players here can expect the usual unsolicited PM asking to see what list they have for sale in .com, so they can piggy back them

[jacksonm]

Originally Posted by Alphamale

The major players here can expect the usual unsolicited PM asking to see what list they have for sale in .com, so they can piggy back them

Heh! When I joined here, I automatically received several unsolicited PMs offering wordlists for sale.

I didn't buy any of them, though, as it seemed to me a bit like buying already used scratch-off instant lottery tickets

.

[Wot]

Originally Posted by jacksonm

Heh! When I joined here, I automatically received several unsolicited PMs offering wordlists for sale.

I didn't buy any of them, though, as it seemed to me a bit like buying already used scratch-off instant lottery tickets

.

Hey , I want my money back

[Wot]

Originally Posted by Alphamale

I have never in my idn life seen an ascii Asian .biz - this should have caution written all over it.

..

Vientiane.biz


Kampuchea.biz

[touchring]

Originally Posted by Alphamale

Using the Industry Approved Crapness Scale, where would you say Asian idn.biz fit in?

.com
cctld
.net
.tv
.org
.cc
.ws

I think most Asians will know .tv.

[jose]

A very recent discussion on the top black hat forum had this title:

.Biz Are They Real Domains?

Inside people were discussing why almost everything is better, on Google's eyes, than buying a .biz...

[Rubber Duck]

Landrush!

http://dnjournal.com/lowdown.htm

[Prodigy]

Originally Posted by touchring

I think most Asians will know .tv.

Dude, .tv has nothing on .org in asia.

[domainguru]

Originally Posted by ChinaStar

Dude, .tv has nothing on .org in asia.

dudes, we gotta stop talking about asia like it is one country ...

[touchring]

I mean most asians that surf the net know what's a TV.

BIZ, ORG, what?

Originally Posted by ChinaStar

Dude, .tv has nothing on .org in asia.

[Prodigy]

Originally Posted by touchring

I mean most asians that surf the net know what's a TV.

BIZ, ORG, what?

Sure they know what a tv is, but do they know how to type in "tv" after the dot? From a domain extension perspective, sorry but .TV has little to nothing.

From a domain perspective (because that's what we're doing here right? or am I just in a wrong forum) .TV has little to no recognition in the markets that I trade:

Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Malaysia

Sure you have the odd ball or two, but zilch for the public.

.Biz is about as bad. .ORG on the other hand is often the 3rd of 4th most well known extension... at least they know its an extension.

[thegenius1]

Originally Posted by ChinaStar

From a domain perspective (because that's what we're doing here right? or am I just in a wrong forum) .TV has little to no recognition in the markets that I trade:

Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Malaysia

Sure you have the odd ball or two, but zilch for the public.

.Biz is about as bad. .ORG on the other hand is often the 3rd of 4th most well known extension... at least they know its an extension.

If you didnt know i will tell you , Dot TV is the Extention of choice for PORN in JAPAN

Originally Posted by domainguru

dudes, we gotta stop talking about asia like it is one country ...

right on !

[Prodigy]

Originally Posted by thegenius1

If you didnt know i will tell you , Dot TV is the Extention of choice for PORN in JAPAN

Dude, seriously, i'm going to have to run you down on that nonsense because why dont you look up these terms from yahoo.co.jp and tell me if you see a majority of .tv extension domains:

１． 風俗
２．セックス
３．ソープランド
４．援助交際
５．セックスビデオ
６．ポルノ
７．ＪＡＶ－ＯＮＥ　。ＴＶ　ＳＩＴＥ
８．ＪＡＰＡＮ　ＡＶ
９．ＡＶモデル

Misinformation and the rumor mill IMHO.

[touchring]

Originally Posted by ChinaStar

Sure they know what a tv is, but do they know how to type in "tv" after the dot? From a domain extension perspective, sorry but .TV has little to nothing.

From a domain perspective (because that's what we're doing here right? or am I just in a wrong forum) .TV has little to no recognition in the markets that I trade:

Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Malaysia

Sure you have the odd ball or two, but zilch for the public.

.Biz is about as bad. .ORG on the other hand is often the 3rd of 4th most well known extension... at least they know its an extension.

I know, it may need some revolutionary thinking, which do you think looks nicer?

体育.TV

or

体育.ORG

The ultimate question: Which do you think can be sold for a higher price 5 years from now?

[Prodigy]

Originally Posted by touchring

I know, it may need some revolutionary thinking, which do you think looks nicer?

体育.TV

or

体育.ORG

The ultimate question: Which do you think can be sold for a higher price 5 years from now?

Revolutionary thinking or personal subjectivity?

The extensions are supposed to define the underlying purpose of the domain.

体育 means sports/physical education (excite.co.jp)

たいいく 体育
physical training 《略: P.T.》; 〈科目〉 physical education 《略: P.E.》
体育の先生 a physical education teacher
体育の日 Health‐Sports Day.
体育館 a gymnasium 《 〜s, ‐sia》; a gym
体育祭 an athletic festival
体育大会 an athletic meet.

.ORG would be a better fit than .TV for a Phys Ed program.

.ORG is already an accepted and recognized domain extension. They struggle to sell .TV as a television extension in the States.

I hope you know what they say about a bird in hand.