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sevent
18th May 2006, 12:21 AM
Anyone know the total number of IDN names currently registered?
bwhhisc
18th May 2006, 02:26 AM
Not positive, but I seem to remember someone saying about 700,000 on an earlier thread.
idnowner
18th May 2006, 03:49 AM
Not positive, but I seem to remember someone saying about 700,000 on an earlier thread.

As I recall, shortly after IDNs (known earlier as multilingual domains) were released in November 2000, there were over 800,000 registered. That was when the domains began with bq-- (as RACE code). And that was when only the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) names were available. Today, I'd think that the number of registrations would be at least in the low millions - but, lets see if someone who knows the answer will post it.