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WorldNames, Inc. Ships Ready-to-Run Multilingual Domain Name Registration System for ICANN-Accredited Registrars  (See full text)

World-Class, Field Tested Multilingual DNS Technology Enables Registrars for .COM, .NET and .ORG to Start Accepting Registrations of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Domain Names in Early October

WorldNames' MLDNS™ is Unicode-based and supports all the established multilingual encoding standards, (see the full list) including ISO-10646 (UTF-8), which has been adopted by Microsoft (in its Windows ME and Windows 2000 operating systems and Internet Explorer browsers), Netscape (in Netscape 6 ) and the Unicode Consortium, as well as emerging ASCII-based universal encoding draft standards such as RACE (Row-based ASCII Compatible Encoding - see http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-race-01.txt), and any of the requirements set by Verisign Global Registry Services for multilingual domain name registrations. MLDNS™ includes four software components, all of which are necessary to give domain name users access to a fully functioning multilingual domain name on the Internet:
  1. ML Conversion Server™, a technology needed by domain name registrars to verify non-English domain names prior to accepting them for registration, and required to properly encode and transform any local language encoding (Japanese Shift_JIS or EUC, Chinese BIG5 or Traditional, Korean, Arabic CP, ISO-8859-X, and scores of other local encoding standards) into the standardized UNICODE character set for further transformation in the UTF-8 and RACE character encoding systems. (See the full list)
  2. ML Whois Server™, which accepts queries from Internet users in any local language encoding and responds with the correct information about a registered ML Domain name just as current Whois servers respond when queried about English language domain names.
  3. ML Webrouter™, a lightweight, robust HTTP server which can accept HTTP requests using any local language encoding, transform the queries into UNICODE/UTF-8 or RACE and redirect the http requests to any ASCII-based web site, such as a Geocities or Homestead site, while still preserving the appropriate local language encoding in the URL.
  4. ML BIND™, a fully multilingual enabled version of BIND 8.2.2 Patch 5, the defacto-standard DNS software currently used by 75% of all Internet sites. This world-class technology, which supports domain names registered in all living languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Icelandic, and Cyrillic has been field tested for the past 9 months at http://www.worldnames.net, with thousands of multilingual names already registered and working on the Internet.