ICANN rejects non-English characters in domain names

[ToeJam13]

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Concerns about "phishing" e-mail scams will likely delay the expansion of domain names to non-English characters, the chairman of the internet's key oversight agency said Friday.

Vint Cerf, head of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, would not speculate on when such characters might appear but said internet engineers must now spend time "trying to winnow down, frankly, the number of character (sets) that are allowed to be registered."

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But security experts warned earlier this year of a potential exploit that takes advantage of the fact that characters that look alike can have two separate codes in Unicode and thus appear to the computer as different. For example, Unicode for "a" is 97 under the Latin alphabet, but 1072 in Cyrillic.

Try it yourself.

www.m??r?s?ft.com
www.microsoft.com


I personally think that the names should be limited to those within the Latin character set. Most other languagues can "romanize" their words quiet easily, and have been doing so for many centuries.

When you start adding unusual letters, you'll only make access to information more difficult. Things should be as common and simple as possible.

 

[imported_Leviathan]

Wow...I got this for the first link:

Sorry, we can?t find "http://www.xn--mrsft-kyebu2q.com/"

 

[Mrvile]

Wait lemme put on my O face.

O
O
O

 

[BrokenVisage]

It's all about the O baby..

 

[FoBoT]

maybe those other languages need their own internet
like keep the english internet english and if somebody wants to make a french or chinese internet , they can make a new one seperate from this one we are using

or something

 

[SagaLore]

I think the only characters allowed should be those that can be typed on an English QWERTY keyboard.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I think the only characters allowed should be those that can be typed on an English QWERTY keyboard.

Heh, I remember when ASCII was it. If it wasn't ASCII, computers weren't going to do it. The domain system should still use that for backward compatability.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I think the only characters allowed should be those that can be typed on an English QWERTY keyboard.

Heh, I remember when ASCII was it. If it wasn't ASCII, computers weren't going to do it. The domain system should still use that for backward compatability.

And if some countries start to whine about it, then we'll just tell them to use IP addresses instead.

 

[ToeJam13]

I agree.

Top level domains (.com, .org, .net, .edu, etc) should use ASCII (Latin alphabet) only. There is far too much room for abuse. Too many people with scams ready to act upon, too few people in control with a vested interest in keeping things 100% safe.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I think the only characters allowed should be those that can be typed on an English QWERTY keyboard.

Heh, I remember when ASCII was it. If it wasn't ASCII, computers weren't going to do it. The domain system should still use that for backward compatability.

Definitely.

 

[deftron]

HOW do kanji domain names work?