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In fact it's become some a huge mess that Verisign, having successfully applied for 12 transliterations of .com and .net, have only launched two of them - .コム for Japan and .닷컴/.닷넷 for Korea - and that was over a year ago. They have abandoned launching the rest. That would make for an interesting article in itself- why would a powerhouse like Verisign not be able to handle launching the lot of them at the same time, given they're for completely different markets?