What are Internationalized Domain Names or IDNs?
Due to the technical limitations of the Internet, domain names can only be registered in ASCII, otherwise known as plain text. International characters such as ö, ç, or Ф, cannot be interpreted by the DNS and therefore cannot reside in a domain name registry as a registered name. Read more...
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Afilias is a sponsor of the 13th LACNIC conference.


Afilias is a Gold Sponsor of the APRICOT 2010 Meeting. The ten-day long summit consists of seminars, workshops, tutorials, conference sessions, birds-of-a-feather (BOFs), and other forums all with the goal of spreading and sharing the knowledge required to operate the Internet within the Asia Pacific region.

Afilias is a sponsor of ICANN no. 37
[八月三日 北京訊] 全球知名網路基礎設施供應商 Afilias,今日正式宣佈加入了中文域名協調聯合會 (Chinese Domain Name Consortium,CDNC)。Afilias將與CDNC共同和其他註冊管理機構一起合作,以國際化域名技術,來服務廣大的中文用戶群。Afilias負責維運全球近一千五百萬個,多達十五種不同的頂級網域名稱 (Top Level Domains, TLDs)。
"The importance of the Chinese domain name market cannot be understated," said Mr.