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International URLs Pass First Test

Posted by Zonk on from the nice-to-see-some-new-faces-online dept.

Off the Rails writes "The BBC reports on the results of a successful test of non-ASCII domain names on Internet-equivalent hardware (pdf) carried out last October. The next stage is to plug the system into the net, and if it still works, it could go live sometime next year. 'Early work on the technical feasibility of using non-English character sets suggested that the address system would cope with the introduction of international characters tests were called for to ensure this was the case ... Also needed are policy decisions by Icann on how the internationalised domain names fit in and work with the existing rules governing the running of the address books. Icann is under pressure to get the international domain names working because some nations, in particular China, are working on their own technology to support their own character sets.'"

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  1. Great by otacon · · Score: 5, Funny

    now I have to learn second languages to look at asian porn.

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    1. Re:Great by vivaoporto · · Score: 4, Funny

      I watch porn to learn foreign languages, you insensitive clod!

  2. Phishing just got a lot more interesting by L.+VeGas · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imaging all the new ways to spell bank0famerlca.com.

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    1. Re:Phishing just got a lot more interesting by slart42 · · Score: 4, Informative

      >Imaging all the new ways to spell bank0famerlca.com.

      This is already happening. A common example is the cyrillic lower case "?", which looks almost exactly like the latin "a" in most fonts.

      See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack for more information.

    2. Re:Phishing just got a lot more interesting by drsquare · · Score: 4, Funny

      Rubbish. Since when does a question mark look like an 'a'?

    3. Re:Phishing just got a lot more interesting by chihowa · · Score: 4, Funny

      Rubbish. Since when does a question mark look like an 'a'?

      Didn't you even read the post? When it's lowercase. Duh.

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  3. Re:Dibs! by VWJedi · · Score: 5, Funny

    The technical test is about having Internationalised Domain Names at the top-level, or root, of the DNS. So then you can have .sêx rather than .sex.

    So we could theoretically have sex at any level... but this is slashdot, so it's not likely to happen for anyone around here.