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ICANN Podiumsdiskussion in Berlin

„Neue Top-Level-Domains: Chancen und Risiken für die Wirtschaft“

Im kommenden Jahr wird sich das Domainnamen-System (DNS) im Internet einen entscheidenden Schritt weiter entwickeln: Neben den bekannten Top-Level-Domains (TDL) wie .de, .com, .net und .org werden neue Adressendungen möglich. Ab Januar können Unternehmen und Organisationen sich für eine eigene Domain bewerben. Denkbar sind z.B. .berlin, .bayern oder .microsoft.

Für die Einführung der neuen Domains ist die unabhängige Organisation ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) zuständig, die sich auch um die allgemeine Verwaltung und Kontrolle der Top-Level-Domains kümmert.

ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom reist nun durch Europa, um über die Bedeutung der neuen TDL – vor allem für Unternehmen, Marken und Regionen – zu sprechen. Geplant sind Diskussionsveranstaltungen in London, Paris – und Berlin.

Das Podium in Berlin:

  • Rod Beckstrom, ICANN
  • Oliver Süme, eco Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft
  • Jennie-Marie Larson, Sedari
  • Björn Sievers, Edelman (Moderation)

Wann?

Donnerstag, 22. September 2011
Beginn: 11.00 Uhr (Einlass ab 10.30 Uhr)

Wo?

E-Plus BASE Camp
Unter den Linden 10
10117 Berlin

Im Anschluss an die Diskussion findet ein kurzes Get Together statt.

Anmeldung erbeten an: benjamin.ulrich@edelman.com


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Internationalized Domain Name ,IDN,"IDNs are domain names that include characters used in the local representation of languages that are not written with the twenty-six letters of the basic Latin alphabet ""a-z"". An IDN can contain Latin letters with diacritical marks, as required by many European languages, or may consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese. Many languages also use other types of digits than the European ""0-9"". The basic Latin alphabet together with the European-Arabic digits are, for the purpose of domain names, termed ""ASCII characters"" (ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange). These are also included in the broader range of ""Unicode characters"" that provides the basis for IDNs. The ""hostname rule"" requires that all domain names of the type under consideration here are stored in the DNS using only the ASCII characters listed above, with the one further addition of the hyphen ""-"". The Unicode form of an IDN therefore requires special encoding before it is entered into the DNS. The following terminology is used when distinguishing between these forms: A domain name consists of a series of ""labels"" (separated by ""dots""). The ASCII form of an IDN label is termed an ""A-label"". All operations defined in the DNS protocol use A-labels exclusively. The Unicode form, which a user expects to be displayed, is termed a ""U-label"". The difference may be illustrated with the Hindi word for ""test"" — परीका — appearing here as a U-label would (in the Devanagari script). A special form of ""ASCII compatible encoding"" (abbreviated ACE) is applied to this to produce the corresponding A-label: xn--11b5bs1di. A domain name that only includes ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens is termed an ""LDH label"". Although the definitions of A-labels and LDH-labels overlap, a name consisting exclusively of LDH labels, such as""icann.org"" is not an IDN."