Stumbling forward means promoting IDNs During the 40th ICANN meeting in San Francisco I got up to talk at the microphone. I spoke about the needs of developing markets on the web, about the importance of focusing on the 56% of the world that doesn’t use Latin character scripts and about the struggles they still face as they go about their everyday lives – chatting, shopping or when pushed, promoting regime change – all using the internet. I cited North African users like the

AMGlobal’s response to the Circle ID article “Making IDN gTLDs Attractive and Safe” by Tina Dam Tina, There’s a lot to like in your proposal. There’s a lot of common sense and a lot that fits what we members of the Joint Applicant Support Working Group have been discussing. As you know, our group is tasked with looking at how the community can support deserving applicants, especially applicants from emerging markets, so that they can participate in and benefit from the new g