At 8/24/00 3:07 AM, Sergei V. Kolodka wrote:
>Ho-ho. Isn't this .L16CL3F8 a new one TLD ?
>And how much of them can be ? Seems like infinite number.
>So if i after all digging through languages find domain in
>chinese which will ends with .shop or .bank or .whateverelse
>after translating to UTF, what to do ?
I'm not quite sure I'm understanding you, but do you mean "what would
happen if someone set up a Chinese TLD that by chance encoded to the
ASCII characters of an ASCII TLD like .shop"?
If so, the chances of it happening at random are billions-to-one against
it. And if it does happen, people simply won't be able to set up a new
Chinese TLD using those characters if the ASCII TLD already exists.
The fact that the characters were in Chinese before they were encoded
doesn't make any difference. You still can't have two different TLDs with
the same ASCII name; the second applicant would be rejected.
Also, of course, any hypothetical new TLD like ".L16CL3F8" would need to
go through the normal ICANN application process; people can't just make
them up and have them work globally.
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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
