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 charactersets.
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, but if they want business from outside the country, un-typable un-recognizable characters won't help.
Terry