BOSTON and DUBLIN (Dec. 6, 2010) - Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, and Afilias Limited, a global provider of Internet domain name registry and Domain Name System (DNS) services, today announced a co-referral program to benefit applicants of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs).

Cartagena de Indias, COLOMBIA – 6 December 2010 – At the 39th International Meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Afilias announced that it has been selected by dotHOTEL® as the registry services and DNS provider for its application to ICANN for the .hotel new top-level domain (new TLD). dotHOTEL is supported by the International Hotel and Restaurant Association, the world’s largest association of hospitality providers.

 

Top industry experts will help select the best .INFO Web sites of 2009

 

DUBLIN, IRELAND - 20 October 2009 - Today, Afilias has released the names of its panel of judges for the 2009 .INFO Awards.  The Awards, officially opened last week, will reward the best professionally created .INFO Web sites from around the world.

Experienced registry operator offers technical and other assistance for new top-level domain applications to ICANN

DUBLIN, IRELAND – 26 August 2009 – Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services and domain name registry technology, today announced that it is seeking to partner with a select number of organizations that wish to apply to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for a new top-level domain (TLD).

 

 

Big Room, Inc. wählt Afilias als offiziellen Registry-Service für seine ICANN-Bewerbung um eine neue TDL

 

Dublin, Irland - 15. Juni 2009 - Bei der bevorstehenden Bewerbungsrunde für neue Top-Level-Domains wird Afilias, globaler Anbieter von Registry-Services, offizieller Registrier-Service-Provider von Big Room Inc. für deren Bewerbung bei der Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) um die neue Top-Level-Domain .ECO.

"IDN" is the acronym for: "Internationalized Domain Names". IDNs are domain/host names that are represented by native language, non-ASCII characters. The native language domain name is followed by the Top Level Domain (TLD), such as .info, .com, or .org. An example is: müller.info.

Typically, when a browser sees a host name, it sends a request to the DNS resolver service which then sends a request to a domain name server to return an IP address corresponding to that host name. When the IP address is returned, a connection is made to the appropriate Web server.

When a compliant browser receives input for an IDN, it converts the IDN into Punycode – the official standard that has been approved for converting IDN domains into resolvable ASCII domains. This process converts the name into an ASCII string with the prefix "xn--" that can be looked up at the TLD nameserver to determine the location of the Web site. Other encodings use different prefixes, e.g., "bq--" is used in Row-based ASCII-Compatible Encoding (RACE).