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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">I thought I would draw the beta launch of the new ICANN WHOIS lookup tool
<a href="http://whois.icann.org">http://whois.icann.org</a> to your attention.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">There is an article by Margie Milam about it here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><a href="http://blog.icann.org/2014/04/introducing-the-beta-launch-of-the-new-icann-whois-lookup-tool">http://blog.icann.org/2014/04/introducing-the-beta-launch-of-the-new-icann-whois-lookup-tool</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">I did a little experiment and typed nic.</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun">ÕþÎñ</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">
into it. .</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun">ÕþÎñ</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""> is a Chinese new gTLD. The result is in the attached file (actually the website displays it better,
but the data are the same). I¡¯ve also put it here: <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/tatcipdp/Chinese+Addresses">
https://community.icann.org/display/tatcipdp/Chinese+Addresses</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Chris.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel +44 20 7679 1599 (int 31599) ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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