More News on Shutdown of RealNames

In case you haven't heard, Realnames is shutting down and this has quite an impact on resolution services for non-Latin character set Internet name resolution services, particularly in Asia-Pacific countries where keywords have found some popularity. The ITU and WIPO, in cooperation with MINC held a symposium in Geneva in December 2001 on the topic of internationalized domain names. Two keyword providers, Realnames and Netpia, also made presentations at the symposium. The (ex-)CEO of Realnames, Keith Teare, has been running a personal weblog on the shutdown of RealNames that includes his views as well as correspondence he's been having on the subject.

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