Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-11-02 Thread John Wilcock
Le 02/11/2009 18:36, Matt Garretson a écrit : Good point. It will be fun when grandma loses her glasses and clicks on a link to ämazon.com or þankofamerica.com That's the real risk here from an anti-spam point of view, and no doubt some new sorts of URI rule will be needed once we see what

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-11-02 Thread Matt Garretson
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > Think about domain names which (ab)use IDN to generate a very similar > text strings (read: glyphs) (especially with the default font in our > beloved monopoly-OS) to serious ones. Good point. It will be fun when grandma loses her glasses and clicks on a link to ämazon

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Fre, 2009-10-30 at 19:23 +, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 15:10 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Terry Carmen wrote: > > >> approval to a plan to permit Web addresses in characters other than the > > >> Latin alphabet, including Arabic, Chines

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 15:40 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote: > While the new character-sets are great for business within a country, > they're not great for anybody planning on doing business in foreign (to > them) locations. > > "The Excellent Rice Company" can pick any Chinese characters they want,

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread James Butler
Oh yes ... there's no denying its complexity. But the desire to use one's native tongue is quite simple. James Butler Pete McNeil wrote: > James Butler wrote: >> We've fielded many, many inquiries about the availability of Arabic >> domain names over the past several years. Don't underestimate th

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread Pete McNeil
James Butler wrote: We've fielded many, many inquiries about the availability of Arabic domain names over the past several years. Don't underestimate the backlash against everything being in English for so long ... there are hordes (sorry) of folks who want to be able to use their native characte

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Terry Carmen wrote: James Butler wrote: We've fielded many, many inquiries about the availability of Arabic domain names over the past several years. Don't underestimate the backlash against everything being in English for so long ... there are hordes (sorry) of folks who want to be able to us

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread Benny Pedersen
On fre 30 okt 2009 19:45:13 CET, Michael Scheidell wrote ICANN Approves Use Of Non-Latin Alphabets In Web Domain Names if the domain names conform to idn standard its okay with me -- xpoint

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread Terry Carmen
James Butler wrote: We've fielded many, many inquiries about the availability of Arabic domain names over the past several years. Don't underestimate the backlash against everything being in English for so long ... there are hordes (sorry) of folks who want to be able to use their native characte

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread James Butler
We've fielded many, many inquiries about the availability of Arabic domain names over the past several years. Don't underestimate the backlash against everything being in English for so long ... there are hordes (sorry) of folks who want to be able to use their native charactersets. James Butler

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 15:10 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: > On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Terry Carmen wrote: > >> approval to a plan to permit Web addresses in characters other than the > >> Latin alphabet, including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and Korean. > > I'd be *really* surprised if these became popular

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Terry Carmen wrote: approval to a plan to permit Web addresses in characters other than the Latin alphabet, including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and Korean. I'd be *really* surprised if these became popular. The last thing any business wants to do is create a domain name that

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread Terry Carmen
Michael Scheidell wrote: ICANN Approves Use Of Non-Latin Alphabets In Web Domain Names http://www.crn.com/software/221400038 By Rick Whiting, ChannelWeb 9:14 AM EDT Fri. Oct. 30, 2009 Web surfers might begin seeing some very different Internet addresses next year. The governing body that over

there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread Michael Scheidell
ICANN Approves Use Of Non-Latin Alphabets In Web Domain Names http://www.crn.com/software/221400038 By Rick Whiting, ChannelWeb 9:14 AM EDT Fri. Oct. 30, 2009 Web surfers might begin seeing some very different Internet addresses next year. The governing body that oversees Internet addresses ha