Avtal
20th January 2011, 04:57 AM
This isn't really news, except it's news to me.
I just found out that it is possible to register IDNs in the .kz (Kazakhstan) ccTLD. I don't know if this was ever announced, or whether there was a sunrise period. Anyway, locals have slowly been accumulating domains: я.kz and погода.kz went in December 2009, пицца.kz in June 2010.
According to 101domains .com, registering IDNs in .kz is not possible; I guess someone should let them know.
I haven't tried registering anything myself, because I prefer to hide behind privacy protection. But if you can read Russian (or if Google translate does the job for you), you can register .kz domains at a registrar named DNR (dnr .kz) for $18 per year. They claim to take credit cards and Webmoney, and there don't seem to be any residency requirements. (This is not an endorsement of dnr .kz; I haven't tried them, and don't know anything about them, but they had a reasonable looking web page).
According to this post (http://www.idnforums.com/forums/27008-kazakhstan-wants-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7.html), Kazakhstan is applying for the .каз IDN ccTLD. No word, of course, on whether owners of IDN .kz will get IDN .каз, but that would be a nice bonus.
Avtal
I just found out that it is possible to register IDNs in the .kz (Kazakhstan) ccTLD. I don't know if this was ever announced, or whether there was a sunrise period. Anyway, locals have slowly been accumulating domains: я.kz and погода.kz went in December 2009, пицца.kz in June 2010.
According to 101domains .com, registering IDNs in .kz is not possible; I guess someone should let them know.
I haven't tried registering anything myself, because I prefer to hide behind privacy protection. But if you can read Russian (or if Google translate does the job for you), you can register .kz domains at a registrar named DNR (dnr .kz) for $18 per year. They claim to take credit cards and Webmoney, and there don't seem to be any residency requirements. (This is not an endorsement of dnr .kz; I haven't tried them, and don't know anything about them, but they had a reasonable looking web page).
According to this post (http://www.idnforums.com/forums/27008-kazakhstan-wants-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7.html), Kazakhstan is applying for the .каз IDN ccTLD. No word, of course, on whether owners of IDN .kz will get IDN .каз, but that would be a nice bonus.
Avtal