User:Nameaction/BlogEntry: 2008 August 19 13:21:57 CDT

IDN opens in Argentina on September 8th

From Monday September 8th of this year and until December 16th inclusive the registration will be in phases for domains with Ñ, accents and Portuguese characters.

The registration in phases will be extended for a period of 100 days until December 17th 2008.

During this period of 100 days only those who already have registered a domain which can be equivalent (without the multilingual) before July 31st 2008 can apply on this phase, having in mind the conversion rules.

Rules of Conversion

a)The characters “á” “â” “ã” or “à” will be able to be used in place of the letter “a”.

b)The characters “é” “ê” or “è” will be able to be used in place of the letter “e”.

c)The characters “í” or “ì” will be able to be used in place of the letter “i”.

d)The characters “ ó” “ô” “õ “or “ò” will be able to be used in place of the letter “o”.

e)The characters “u” or “ü” will be able to be used in place of the letter “u”.

f)The character “ñ” will be able to be used in place of the following combinations “n”, “nh”, “ni”, “nn”, “ny”, “gn”.

g)The character “ç” will be able to be used in place of the letters “c” and/or “s”.

For example: If an entity has registered papa.com.ar and the date of this registration is before July 31st 2008, the entity will be able to request papá.com.ar.

If there is more than one requester for the same domain IDN (in cases where domains requested with “ç” or “ñ”), the domain will correspond to the registration of the domain with characters ASCII (without multilingual characters) that was registered before July 31st 2008.

The requests for registration with multilingual characters that was admitted during the period of the 100 days will be pending approval until Wednesday December 17th 2008.

From that date, and until Monday March 16th 2009 inclusive, of limit date, (depending on the number of requests admitted), NIC Argentina will approve the requests of domains with multilingual characters.

From the date of December 17th NIC Argentina will start to approve the requests of domains with IDN. Once this process is finished, NIC Argentina will announce, with at least 15 days in advance, which will be the date to start registrations for general public of domains with IDNs.

Juan Enrique Sánchez S.

President

NameAction

Domains Latin America

jesanchez@nameaction.com

www.nameaction.com