Dear Valued Customers,
We are proud to announce that .my DOMAIN REGISTRY now supports
Internationalized Domain Name (IDN).
An IDN (also known as multilingual domain name) is a domain name that
contains Unicode characters other than the basic 37 ASCII characters
permitted to-date (a-z , 0-9 and -). In other words, an IDN may contain
letters with diacritics (for example, faade) as required by many European
languages or characters drawn from non-Latin scripts such as Jawi /
Arabic, Chinese or Tamil.
Many countries have started to offer domain names in their local scripts
to allow more of their population access the Internet. Amongst the first
few countries to deploy top level IDN are Egypt (... ), Saudi Arabia
(........ ) and United Arab Emirates (...... ) . all on the 5th May 2010.
Even two of our neighbouring countries, Thailand and Singapore, have
implemented IDN.
For Malaysia, .my have decided to offer 2nd Level IDNs, starting with Jawi
(for example, .......my). Chinese and Tamil IDNs are also in the pipeline
and will be implemented progressively. For Jawi IDNs, the roll out will
be in 3 phases. In the first phase, registration of Jawi IDNs is
specifically for government agencies and government educational entities.
Registrations start from 24th January 2011 until 30th April 2011. The
first phase Jawi IDNs will be free of charge for one year. Government
agencies and government educational entities are encouraged to secure
their Jawi IDNs as soon as possible.
Existing .my customers will enjoy Jawi IDNs in the second phase, and in
the third phase, Jawi IDNs will be opened to the public. Do keep an eye
open for the announcements on the second and third phase roll out to
secure your own Jawi IDN!
For more information about IDN, do visit .my domain registry FAQ page at
http://www.domainregistry.my/faq.php?id=98.
Please do not hesitate to e-mail domain@nocser.net
Nocser Technology
