IDN.IDN is an abbreviation

Abbreviation

An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase. Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase...

 for an Internationalized domain name

Internationalized domain name

An internationalized domain name is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Hindi or the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics,...

 whose Top level domain (TLD) is also internationalized, which could be transliterated .com, .net, .org, etc. or be groupings relevant to the language at hand.

Recent news

• March 14, 2006 : Timetable of Proposed Testing of IDNS in Top-Level Domains Announced

English transliterative proposals

• Chinese:
  • .中国 : .cn
  • .公司 : .com.cn
  • .网络 : .net.cn
• Korean:
  • .한국 : .kr
  • .회사 : .com
  • .기관 : .org
  • .통신 : .communication
  • .컴 : .computer
• Japanese:
  • .日本 : .jp
  • .コム : .com
• Russian:
  • .РФ : .ru
  • .орг : .org
  • .ком : .com
• Bulgarian:
  • .БГ : .bg
  • .ИНФО : .info
  • .ИМЕ : .name
• Hebrew:
  • ישראל : .il
  • עסק.ישראל : .co.il
  • קום : .com
  • נט : .net
  • ארג : .org
• Arabic:
  • كوم : .com
  • نت : .net
  • اورغ , اورج : .org
  • نطاق : .domain

Culturally relevant proposals

• Chinese:
• Korean:
• Japanese:
• Russian:
• Hebrew:
  • שלום.דבר : shalom.dbr (dbr being roots of the verb 'to talk')
  • דפנה.שלי : daphne.shli (shli being a preposition 'of me,' for personal homepages, etc.)
• Arabic:
  • شركة : .com
  • شبكة : .net
  • منظمة : .org

Concerns and considerations

As this is an issue still being "decided upon," (for many years, apparently) there are many factors to be considered. Here are a few just thrown out to be edited around and made to look pretty.

• IDN.COM vs. IDN.IDN, important issue as IDN.COM is already available.
• Compatibility
• Punycode
  Punycode
  In computing, Punycode is an instance of a general encoding syntax by which a string of Unicode characters is transformed uniquely and reversibly into a smaller, restricted character set....
  
  
• "branching off from the *main* internet" (various POVs)
  • Who Owns The Internet
  • The UN Resolution from meeting in Tunisia
• Localization
  • Transliteration
    Transliteration
    Transliteration is a subset of the science of hermeneutics. It is a form of translation, and is the practice of converting a text from one script into another...
    
    of COM NET ORG vs. culturally significant TLD names of the languages' own choosing.
  • Right-to-left formatted languages such as Arabic and Hebrew

External links

• ICANN's IDN Committee
• Proposal for the Implementation of Internationalized TLDs
• IDN Guide
• IDN News
• Korean Government Position on IDN TLDs
• IDN's Forum
• Local Domains Forum
• International Domain Forum