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Internationalized Domain Names Coming Soon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the untypable dept.

rduke15 writes "You think you know how to parse a domain name for validity? Well, in case you haven't noticed, things are getting tougher as registrars keep adopting IDN (Internationalized Domain Names), which uses a weird encoding named Punycode to enable accented characters in domain names. The Register reports about Switzerland, Germany and Austria's joint move to enable IDN. See the overview in English from Switch. But I guess it would be difficult to talk about this on /., since it does not even support basic Latin-1 ... :-)"

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  1. FINALLY! by penguinrenegade · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm glad to see that people other than Americans are being recognized on the internet. Which originally started as an American military project...

  2. Does this mean by gregarican · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That www.dell.com will automatically forward to www.dell.in?

  3. Re:Bad idea but bound to happen with todays thinki by Scrameustache · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To accomodate people who are "insulted" or "offended" that thier native language is not fully "respected" by the internet is ludacris.[...]As much as the information on the web should be free, if you can't handle a little learning curce to access the info, IMO you aren't capable mentaly of doing anything with the info once you access it

    Like, for instance, figuring out what the hell YOU are saying requires a steep learning curve.

    Your inability to master one language must the root of your jingoist hatred of the idea that people from other cultures might get full access to the internet's potential too. I mean, it would be outrageous to expect you to have a bit of a learning curve to use the internet. The rest of the world, yes, but that you might need to learn a lil' something new? Folly!

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  4. Re:Bad idea but bound to happen with todays thinki by Calaf · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm all for information being free, and the web remaining a pace for a free flow of information to the whole world

    As long as the language is US English, eh?

    The world is a big place. You ought to get out and see more of it.

  5. Re:Arrrgggh by lucas+teh+geek · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah great, so if this ever gets off the ground you want to block large portions of the world from ever visiting some stupid towns website?

    ... come to think of it, thats not such a bad idea! maybe if we make all the stupid websites use stupid characters in their domain names the internet will no longer be shit, sort of like a filter

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