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VeriSign plans to apply for regarding 12 fresh top level domain names

Firm will apply for regarding a dozen TLDs, mostly transliterations of .com.

VeriSign plans to apply for “regarding 12” top level domain names this year, Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager of VeriSign Naming Services, stated on VeriSign’s investor conference call this evening. Most of these will be transliterations of .com. In other words, internationalized domain names (IDNs).

Although he did not elaborate on what those domains would be, Kane previously told Reglike that you can expect .com equivalents in Japanese, Hangul, Chinese, Cyrillic, Arabic, and Hebrew.

The firm also stated that VeriSign has by now been selected as the registry provider by a number of brands that will apply for fresh top level domains. It did not reveal any numbers, although the firm has predicted there will be 1,000 to 1,500 total fresh TLD applications.

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