VeriSign Now Offering .BIZ IDNs
VeriSign Corporate Domain Name Management customers can now place requests for .BIZ Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) that utilize Chinese and Japanese characters. The .BIZ registry launched .BIZ IDNs on a first-come, first-served basis on April 23. IDNs are domain names that are spelled using native language, non-ASCII characters that may not appear in the English alphabet. With over 1.6 million registrations, .BIZ is among the Top 10 most popular extensions. The .BIZ registry currently offers IDN registrations in six languages: Danish, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. To see which characters are permitted in each language, visit the .BIZ Web site.
