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First New Top-Level Domains Added To the Root Zone
angry tapir writes "The Internet – or at least its namespace – just got bigger. Four new top-level domains have been added to the Internet's root zone. The four new gTLDs all use non-Latin scripts: 'web' in Arabic, 'online' in Cyrillic, 'sale' in Cyrillic, and 'game' in Chinese. In total, the generic top-level domain process run by ICANN will result in the expansion of top-level domains from 22 to up to 1400."
And phishers everywhere rejoiced
Cyrillic is an alphabet or script; it is not a language. The TLDs written in Cyrillic, when translated into Russian (the most abundant language to use the Cyrillic script) are "online" and "sale".
These new domains seem to split the internet, unless the pages can be read by the English speaking world. Maybe that's the idea, but it seems to move away from the intent of a universal internet.
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The word in cyrlillic ("") is "site", not "sale".
is "network" in Arabic. Not web.
No one should own any of the domains.
You seem to have missed the Montevideo Statement a few weeks back. All of the Internet governance bodies are going NGO.
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OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Not "sale" in Cyrillic, but "site"
The World Wide Web has officially just jumped the shark.
I submit that Eternal September has now ended as all the Newbies will proceed to drown in an ever-rising sea of spam and phishing. I suspect gTLD expansion will do to the Web community what global warming may do to low lying coastal areas.
Regards, Phil
When I translated "" (which is specified as sale in Cyrillic ) using Google translate, Google automatically detected "Russian" language. And, the translation output is "website" not "sale".
How can you insert Cyrillic letters or IPA symbols on /.?
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These would be the first new gTLDs added ... since .aero, .asia, .biz, .cat, .coop, .info, .jobs, .mobi, .museum, .name, .post, .pro, .tel, .travel, and .xxx.
So not really "first".
Is the title supposed to read "first non-Latin"?
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The new TLDs will massively extend the number of US controlled domains.
There is no structural difference between a gTLD and cTLD.
Please do tell me how a new gTLD gives the US more control than they already have over the root itself ?
Most of the new gTLD's are brandnames or TLDs like this Cyrilic .online.
I assume the brandnames already had a .com.
And the others will be selling second level domains.
Do tell, I'd like to know how the US has more control.
New things are always on the horizon
I wonder how a browser will display something like .shabakah - will most software have right-to-eft rendering and the ligature support for Arabic?
Also imagine an Arabic TLD that allows Latin domain names - how the hell do you render that..?
Anyway, I'm gonna go kill some time on the shabakaat
Unicode has several combining characters (such as a combining acute accent). There are also lots of single characters which already include an accent (U0225 is an 'a' with acute accent). Will the DNS standard dictate that all be normalized (either all decomposed or all composed; and put in a canonical order), or will U0225 be treated differently than 'a' followed by a combining acute accent?
The controller of the root servers controls the entire namespace. Size of the namespace doesn't really matter. Too bad alternate roots never took hold. Nor has any distributed DNS infrastructure gained any acceptance.
With Freedom Hosting and TSR gone, I assume it's down from like 12 sites to 3 or 4....
Does anyone know if they handle the look-alike issue or are we still stuck with URLs that appear to be latin "paypal.com", but with the "y" replaced by a greek lower gamma (Î) #x3b3, "p" replaced with cyrillic Er (Ñ) #x440, or some other equivalent that appears identical?
I understand why it's a hard issue: the cyrillic lowercase Er looks *identical* to latin p so they can be mapped to the same character, but the greek lower gamma isn't the exact same glyph as latin lower y, they just look close enough that a user might not notice. Would it be a slight to greek users to force greek domain names to use a misshapen lower gamma? Then what do you do with greek alpha, where the capital matches the latin glyph exactly but the lower does not?
Then there's the issue that every computer everywhere can enter latin characters, but not everyone has software for or how to use stuff like Chinese characters or Japanese Hirigana. Keeping to basic latin characters makes entering domain names universal, though I understand why that's convenient for an English speaker like me to say. I'd be curious to hear from some people who have non-European first languages how much having to use latin domain names seems to bother the average computer user and whether there is any actual cry for international domain names in their country? How difficult/easy is it to enter latin characters on your keyboard layout? Does it present a barrier to entry for the less educated/literate, or does everyone remember their English classes from school?
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How does adding 4 domains take the total from 22 to 1400? Shouldn't it be 26?
Is 1563649 a prime number?
Oops I'm sorry email from user@mydomain.enrichicann is not valid.
Hey that new TLD does not work in DNS cuz we are not blindly delegating * to root zones.
Don't allow icann to continue to be enriched at the cost of fucking over the Internet. ICANN does not own you or the network and systems you control.
Doesn't the addition of all these domains mean that companies that keep a tight leash on their trademarking (like Coke, Pepsi, Microsoft, etc.) will have to shell out hundreds of new and ongoing registration fees just to ensure that some obscure domain isn't hijacked with their name? This seems more like a cash cow for ICANN than a thought-out expansion.
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