It seems interesting to me that both of these articles bring up the issue of multilingual domain names when, as far as I know, verisign isn't using Unicode for it. They are trying to set up their own RACE encoding which just puts the characters into ascii. Such as the hiragana for kitsune.org is turned into bq--gbgwii.org and looked up that way.
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It seems interesting to me that both of these articles bring up the issue of multilingual domain names when, as far as I know, verisign isn't using Unicode for it. They are trying to set up their own RACE encoding which just puts the characters into ascii. Such as the hiragana for kitsune.org is turned into bq--gbgwii.org and looked up that way.