Bangla may be used in net domain name

[sarcle]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has agreed in principle to include Bangla as one of the languages to be used in top-level domain name, said a parliamentary committee yesterday.
"When I recently met Icann CEO Rod Beckstrom in Egypt he agreed in principle to include Bangla as one of the languages to be used for top-level domain names," Hasanul Haq Inu, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on telecommunications ministry, told The Daily Star after a meeting of the committee.
Inu said he asked Beckstrom why Bangla, which is spoken by about 40 crore people, will not be included for using in domain names while Russian and Arabic scripts are going to be incorporated in the domain name system.
"Beckstrom finally agreed in principle and advised me to apply formally from government level," said Inu.
"The parliamentary standing committee today asked the ministry concerned to apply to Icann to this end and inform Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina about it," he added.
Inu expressed hope that Bangla will be one of the top-level domain name languages by the next International Mother Language Day.
Icann is a non-profit organisation that was created on September 18, 1998, in order to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks including assigning Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and managing generic and country code top-level domain name system.
The parliamentary standing committee meeting asked the telecommunications ministry to declare about 29 acres of land of Telephone and Shipa Sangstha as telecom and electronic machinery production zone.
It also asked the ministry not to apply the government purchase policy to purchase of machineries or equipment for the organisation.
"We have also set a timetable for Telephone and Shilpa Sangstha to turn the losing venture into a profitable one," Inu said.


http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=115255

Please note that International Mother Language Day is Feb. 21st in Bangladesh.

And an estimated 230 million speakers of Bengali according to Wikipedia.

[markits]

Thanks sarcle!
With nearly 230 million total speakers, Bengali is one of the most spoken languages (ranking fifth or sixth) in the world. Bengali is the primary language spoken in Bangladesh and is the second most spoken language in India.

[sarcle]

Thanks sarcle!
With nearly 230 million total speakers, Bengali is one of the most spoken languages (ranking fifth or sixth) in the world. Bengali is the primary language spoken in Bangladesh and is the second most spoken language in India.

Bengali has truly been quite the under-rated and over-looked language it seems. It has huge potential.

[tee1]

thanks for the info, I see that you have a Bengali name the portfolio :)

[sarcle]

thanks for the info, I see that you have a Bengali name the portfolio :)

I decided to grab a few. :yes:

[bwhhisc]

I decided to grab a few. :yes:

Did RD leave any behind? :p

[tee1]

Did RD leave any behind? :p
RD left a few
@ Sarcle
here is one that would fit nicely with a couple you regged yesterday. :D
স্বাস্থ্য com health. com google results = 776,000

Bengali terms do have some nice google results and they are growing.

[Rubber Duck]

Moi?

[tee1]

Moi?
Hard to believe isn't it, it wasn't many but just a few laying around. You probably dropped those.

As the quote goes "Don't take them all" :lol:


Just noticed this on www.google.co.in, how long has bengali been a choice?
Google.co.in offered in: Hindi Bengali Telugu Marathi Tamil Gujarati Kannada Malayalam Punjabi

[Rubber Duck]

Hard to believe isn't it, it wasn't many but just a few laying around. You probably dropped those.

As the quote goes "Don't take them all" :lol:

We only have about 40 dot coms and few dot nets, but some of them quite good I think.

[tee1]

but some of them quite good I think.
Definitely agree. also you grabbed yours when bengali resources were tough to come by as well.

[markits]

RD owns some single letters.

[sarcle]

RD left a few
@ Sarcle
here is one that would fit nicely with a couple you regged yesterday. :D
স্বাস্থ্য com health. com google results = 776,000

Bengali terms do have some nice google results and they are growing.

Yeah, there was even an alphabet letter available until yesterday that is. :)

With limited translation resources and Google results it's hard to tell for sure if the term is correct. So the others may be garble. I'm hoping they're not. lol.

I do have a list of a few single character domains in Bengali script... Wondering if I should post them....

[markits]

Yeah, there was even an alphabet letter available until yesterday that is. :)

....

Yes I noticed this too. A few vowels were available yesterday (dropped a while ago). I picked up this one: xn--n5b.com (ও.com). I think it is equivalent to vowel "O".

[Rubber Duck]

RD owns some single letters.

A single letter.

[sarcle]

Yes I noticed this too. A few vowels were available yesterday (dropped a while ago). I picked up this one: xn--n5b.com (ও.com). I think it is equivalent to vowel "O".

You sucker. Damn, I had that ready to go at Moniker last night. Then it got too late. I don't know why I hesitated. Nice grab. :D

[markits]

Thanks sarcle for letting me have it.

You have too many top ones. This domain means nothing to you but a lot to me.;)

[sarcle]

These are the single characters available from last night. Don't know if they still are available and I don't vouch for any of them. Do your own research.

xn--94b.com (আ.xn--94b.com) Avail xn--d5b.com (উ.xn--d5b.com) Avail xn--e5b.com (ঊ.xn--e5b.com) Avail xn--f5b.com (ঋ.xn--f5b.com) Avail xn--g5b.com (ঌ.xn--g5b.com) Avail xn--u7b.com (ৠ.xn--u7b.com) Avail xn--v7b.com (ৡ.xn--v7b.com) Avail xn--w7b.com (ৢ.xn--w7b.com) Avail xn--x7b.com (ৣ.xn--x7b.com) Avail xn--f8b.com (৴.xn--f8b.com) Avail xn--g8b.com (৵.xn--g8b.com) Avail xn--h8b.com (৶.xn--h8b.com) Avail xn--i8b.com (৷.xn--i8b.com) Avail xn--j8b.com (৸.xn--j8b.com) Avail xn--k8b.com (৹.xn--k8b.com) Avail xn--l8b.com (৺.xn--l8b.com) Avail xn--b8b.com (ৰ.xn--b8b.com) Avail xn--c8b.com (ৱ.xn--c8b.com) Avail xn--w6b.com (ি.xn--w6b.com) Avail xn--x6b.com (ী.xn--x6b.com) Avail xn--y6b.com (ু.xn--y6b.com) Avail xn--z6b.com (ূ.xn--z6b.com) Avail xn--06b.com (ৃ.xn--06b.com) Avail xn--16b.com (ৄ.xn--16b.com) Avail xn--46b.com (ে.xn--46b.com) Avail xn--56b.com (ৈ.xn--56b.com) Avail xn--86b.com (ো.xn--86b.com) Avail xn--96b.com (ৌ.xn--96b.com) Avail xn--b7b.com (্.xn--b7b.com) Avail xn--v6b.com (া.xn--v6b.com) Avail
xn--t6b.com (়.xn--t6b.com) Avail xn--44b.com (ঁ.xn--44b.com) Avail xn--54b.com (ং.xn--54b.com) Avail xn--64b.com (ঃ.xn--64b.com) Avail

Cheers :eek:

[sarcle]

Thanks sarcle for letting me have it.

You have too many top ones. This domain means nothing to you but a lot to me.;)

Yeah, I couldn't believe what I saw. Which is why I waited to post this blog for about an hour to give me a head start. ;)

RD has some excellent ones though and has had for awhile.

[domainstosell]

Dang, guess I should have kept my Bengali domains, huh... :(

[idn]

Bengali domain rush? :)

[sarcle]

Dang, guess I should have kept my Bengali domains, huh... :(

So I got all those from you? Including porn? I wondered who had them at their namedrive.


Bengali domain rush?


Just taking your advice. :p

"Take the chance while you still have the choice."

[domainstosell]

No, porn wasn't mine, but I did have some nice ones - 0-9 numerals, email and e-mail, internet, etc. Should have sat on them, but budgets and renewals have been rough... :)

I dropped a lot of stuff either from lack of funds, or from a short inactive period in domaining, etc. Oh well, live and learn - I kept some stuff that should still pay off in the long run, just not in this language.

[idn]

So I got all those from you? Including porn? I wondered who had them at their namedrive.



Just taking your advice. :p

"Take the chance while you still have the choice."

I should probably change it to: You f*cked up and missed your chance. Buy gold.

[alexd]

Well after reading this thread, and doing a little searching around, I went and registered a few Bengali IDNs - but .nets only as the .coms were taken ( some are owned by members in here )

Not sure if they are 100% correct, but I thought they were worth the risk.

ক্রিকেট.net - Cricket.net
হোটেল.net - Hotel.net
খবর.net - News.net
খেলা.net - Sports/Games.net - Not 100% sure of this one, but as RD owns the .com, he might be able to let me know what this one is.

One .com that I did register was ...
গ্রীস.com Greece.com ( or at least I hope thats what it means !! )
... for obvious reasons.

If anyone else can confirm any of the above, it would really be appreciated.

I also found this online translator for English to Bengali - not sure how well it works, but it was pretty useful for me - http://bengalinux.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/anubadok/index.pl

Thanks

Alex

[sarcle]

I should probably change it to: You f*cked up and missed your chance. Buy gold.

I did that too. :yes:

bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/সোনা (http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/সোনা)

[Rubber Duck]

I have it as Game, but then I thought I had Porn, so what do I know. Language resources were just about nil when I registered and still pretty tough. it would seem. But there are no prizes for second place.


Well after reading this thread, and doing a little searching around, I went and registered a few Bengali IDNs - but .nets only as the .coms were taken ( some are owned by members in here )

Not sure if they are 100% correct, but I thought they were worth the risk.

ক্রিকেট.net - Cricket.net
হোটেল.net - Hotel.net
খবর.net - News.net
খেলা.net - Sports/Games.net - Not 100% sure of this one, but as RD owns the .com, he might be able to let me know what this one is.

One .com that I did register was ...
গ্রীস.com Greece.com ( or at least I hope thats what it means !! )
... for obvious reasons.

If anyone else can confirm any of the above, it would really be appreciated.

I also found this online translator for English to Bengali - not sure how well it works, but it was pretty useful for me - http://bengalinux.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/anubadok/index.pl

Thanks

Alex

[blastfromthepast]

Dang, guess I should have kept my Bengali domains, huh... :(

I told you back then you had found a good niche.

[domainstosell]

I told you back then you had found a good niche.

Yeah, I know... I look at some stuff I saved and some I dropped, and I could kick myself!

[htmlindex]

RD left a few
@ Sarcle
here is one that would fit nicely with a couple you regged yesterday.
স্বাস্থ্য com health. com google results = 776,000

Bengali terms do have some nice google results and they are growing.

Thanks, picked it up since nobody else wanted it :p

Also picked up a few other ones as well. Can't seem to stop spending money regging names :(