Non roman chars in Web Domain names
trevorb
October 29, 2009 at 03:10 PM posted in General DiscussionThis will be interesting, No need for Tiny url's when one character spells more. look out for 中国点司 coming to a web near you :-)
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/
this may well be another good reason to learn chars as well as speech.
kimiik
October 30, 2009 at 11:55 AM
That's right, I didn't follow the evolution of the Domain Names. Since the implementation of the new IDN system (2006) and now the new IDNA (2009), the accented latin letters are accepted.
Btw, I checked the wikipedia page speaking about the problem of homographs in the IDN system as similar letters in different alphabets are coded differently.
As traditional chinese characters, simplified chinese characters and japanese kanji share many characters under different codes, I guess there's also a huge potential for spoofing attacks.
simonpettersson
October 29, 2009 at 07:25 PM
I remember when it became possible to register Swedish domain names with å, ä and ö a few years ago. At that time, domain owners had the first chance of registering new domains for versions of the ones they already owed. So for example, the owner of registrera-doman.se had the opportunity to snag registrera-domän.se before anyone else could. I wonder if the same thing will happen here? That is, will tudou.com have the first opportunity to get 土豆.com?
kimiik
October 29, 2009 at 07:02 PM
Because of alleged phishing risk, the accented and non-accented latin letters are still considered as the same characters (e é è ë ê). But all the chinese characters are accepted even when very similar and hard to differentiate.
Where's the coherence ?
andrew_c
October 29, 2009 at 04:34 PM
sounds great!
I wish this were widely supported in programming languages too (much more concise, meaningful code).
trevorb
October 30, 2009 at 11:06 PMI wondered if microsoft would be after 微软, I suspect they have to or someone will obtain it for fishing purposes.
Its going to be really interesting to start seeing URLs with Chinese, turkish, korean etc chars. Most native english speaking people will assume these sites are dangerous anyway and leave them alone. We may differ slightly as we like the challenge but with up to date patches and AV we should be okay.