Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:51 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:49:52 GMT, Florian Weimer said:
> > * Rich Kulawiec:
> >
> > > So of course they're in favor of .mobi and .info and .pro and
> > > as many more variations as possible, because every time another
> > > one is launched, they get to do this all over again.
> >
> > But this whole thing only works if new TLDs are relatively rare.  If
> > they aren't, the whole scheme breaks down.
>
> But now, they're going to add .foobar in ascii, and the cyrillic (possibbly
> different renderings if the word for 'foobar' is different in different
> countries - consider .truck and .lorry), and Mandarin, and kanji, and all
> hell breaks loose in India,,,,  So we'll be adding them 20 or 30 at a
> shit...

Will different people be running the various renderings of .foobar?
Ultimately that's what matters from an enforcement perspective.

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