Wow... www.forkyou.com actually works! So does www.fromyou.com and
www.findyou.com
Amazingly unoffensive.
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Support Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Eric Paynter wrote:
> Why would "bite me" be an issue? This is the real world an anything goes.
> Check out www.f---you.com (replace each "-" with letters you may feel would
> make this URL offensive) and you will see that there's no forbidden
> territory on the Internet.
>
> -Eric
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Tiger Technologies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 2:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Not ASCII chars in domain name ???
>
>
> > Any chance that in doing so, one might inadvertantly register an
> > offensive foreign word?
> >
> > e.g., if I register my ADASASKLDLJSA.com, and ADASASKLDLJSA happens
> > to un-encode to "bite me" under some character set, isn't that an
> > issue?
> >
> > D
> >
> > At 12:49 PM -0700 8/23/00, Tiger Technologies wrote:
> > >At 8/23/00 12:15 PM, Charles Daminato wrote:
> > >
> > >>Based on this encoding system - is there any chance that two strings
> using
> > >>different character sets would translate to the same ASCII string?
> > >>
> > >>That would definitely cause problems (and is mathematically rare, but
> > >>still statistically possible).
> > >
> > >No, no two script systems can generate the same UTF-5 Unicode encoding.
> > >
> > >The only danger is that an encoded Unicode string would match an
> > >unencoded ASCII string as currently used in the DNS, but you can check
> > >for that as you go along: in the unlikely event a Unicode-encoded string
> > >matches an existing ASCII domain/TLD/etc, you just won't be able to
> > >register/use that domain/TLD because it's already taken.
> > >
> > >--
> > >Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
> >
> >
> >
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