Deployment of IDN

In Korea

Aug. 23, 2003

Korea Network Information Center

October 2002 :

IETF published four proposed standards regarding IDNs

June 2003

Guidelines for the Implementation of Internationalized Domain

Names (version 1.0) were published by ICANN

August 2003

IMAA(Internationalizing Mail Addresses in Applications)

Draft came out

IDN Activities

CNNIC : Launched in Nov, 2000

running around 200,000

JPRS : Launched in April, 2001

running around 51,000

TWNIC : Launched in June, 2000

running around 100,000

Verisign : Launched in Nov, 2000

running around 210,000

Registries of IDN Launches

Deployment of Hangeul.KR

Hangeul.KR is launched in August 19 10:00

Taking registrations at second level ex) 한글 .kr

However, ASCII names are still registered at third level ex) nic.or.kr

Deployment of Hangeul.KR

Taking Conservative approach

  - Length of domain names : 2 - 17

  - Number of allowed characters : 2350 (based of Korean Standard KSX 1001:1998)

  * In unicode table, there are 11,172

  - Reserved Words : 769 (To reserve name space mostly category names)

                     : 60 (abusive words)

Registration Policy

Sunrise Period for public names, registered trade marks and

company names

19 20 … 29 30 31 1 2 13 … 28 29 30 1 … 5 6 7 8 … 19 20 21 … 2 3 4

First Come, First Served

2003.8.19~2004.8.18 (1Year)

10.21~11.3 (2Weeks)

1st Stage(Reserved wordsfor Government

and PublicOrganization)/(Trademark and

Registeredcompany name)

2nd Stage(1domain name for

1 certificate)

August September October November

Reserved Words (Government and Public Organization)

Trade Mark and Registered company name

First Come,First Served

8.19~9.29 (6Weeks) 9.30~10.6 (1Week)

10.7~10.20 (2Weeks)Available Certificates (Certificate of Regidence, Certificate of Registration of Entrepreneur)

Registration Policy

<1st stage>

Reserved Names for the following Organizations(about 13,000 Names)

 - Governments - Education Institutions - Legislative Bodies - etc.

 Plan to preserve the list for one year

Registration Policy

Registered Trade Marks : Three names can be registered per certificate

ie) sktelecom : 에스케이텔레콤 .kr, sk 텔레콤 .kr, sk 탤래콤 .kr

Registered Company Names : Two names can be registered per certificate

ie) Samsung Electronics Inc. : 삼성전자 .kr or 삼성전자주식회사 .kr

Taking registrations for six weeks and will do lottery in one week

if multiple applications were received

Registration Policy

<2nd stage>

1 domain name per certificate (company certificate or ID number)

Taking registrations for two weeks and will do lottery in two weeks

if multiple applications were received

After 2nd stage, First Come, First Served

KRNIC is running 7 Authorized Agency

KRNIC is running its own communication program between KRNIC and Agencies

KRNIC is charging the agencies 15,400won(including tax) per domain name

Agencies is charging the customers around 22,000won (including tax) price varies among agencies

Authorized Agency (Registrar)

Running zone files in puny code format

Showing both hangeul and puny code on whois service

Using Verisign's I-nav plug-in to convert hangeul to puny code at user's application

Redirecting hangeul domain traffics to plug-in installation page by .kr name server and its secondary servers

Distributing code convertor

Service

Plug-in collisions

Netpia's ngDNS is redirecting hangeul domain traffics to their plug-in distributing site

awareness 

Problems

Thank you