[ga-roots] Verisign - Realnames

["Page Howe" <page@pagehowe.com>]

this deal is really no different than new.net - both using naming scheme to
mask second level domains.


VeriSign Announces Breakthrough in Web Navigation for Tens of Millions Of
Users Worldwide
Users Can Now Reach Web Sites Via Domain Names in Their Own Languages
Through Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq:
VRSN - news), the leading provider of Internet trust services, today
announced that Internet users can now reach Web site destinations by typing
domain names with characters used in their own languages into their
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher browser software. These
Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, contain non-ASCII characters to the
left of the ``dot'' and are available in more than 350 languages. Using
technology from RealNames Corporation, Microsoft modified a search function
of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 to enable the IDNs to work without the
use of special plug-ins or client software.





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