The Multilingual Internet Names Consortium (MINC) first origins may be traced to a research project on multilingual Internet domain name. The consortium may consists of various organizations and qualified individuals such as software companies, ISPs, regional organizations, TLD administrators, user organizations, and public organizations. The multilingual names covered at the consortium include the following areas multilingual domain names, and multilingual keywords.

The consortium's activity may include the following areas:

Coordination of research and development on multilingual names,
Coordination on technical aspects of deployment of the multilingual names,
Coordination with the relevant organizations
Coordination for standards development on multilingual names