Q: What is your title and role at ISOC-IL? A: .IL Registry Administrator Q: On Sunday, ISOC-IL will allow the general public to register Hebrew IDNs. On what extensions will I be able to register IDNs? Is it just under .CO.IL or is it also under .IL and .ORG.IL? A: The general public will be [...]

I was recently asked to summarize the Hebrew IDN market. Here is my analysis. The Pros of Buying Hebrew IDNs *Israel is a technologically advanced country with high internet penetration. *Hebrew is a language often used for branding and Internet media. *Hebrew IDNs have already been used for large scale media campaigns. See here. *Many [...]

Soon, domains such as ירושלים.ישראל (“Jerusalem.Israel” in Hebrew) may be commonplace. The Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL) announced this week that it will allow Hebrew IDNs to be registered on the .IL ccTLD space. The Sunrise preregistration period will end on October 30, 2010 and will be open to “[o]wners of Israeli textual trademarks and entities [...]