Jose, Unfortunately, since the .info registry is a "thick" registry (that is, contains and is authoritative for all domain info) we can only extend their functionality.
We do take non-ASCII for some domain types (com/net/org for which we're authoritative for contact information and whois), but we cannot for .info since they do not allow it themselves. If you can think of a decent character substitution scheme, you may want to detail that (or perhaps even impliment it locally?) Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jose Luis Moya > Sent: September 9, 2002 4:00 AM > To: OpenSRS Discuss List > Subject: .info, UTF-8 and being international > > > Being an international reseller, we adopted straight away at the time all > the UTF-8 API specifications in order to allow our clients to write their > names, cities, etc in a correct format in the registration (apart from > hoping we would one day really sell international names). > > Now we have lots of problems registering INFO domains since when > one of our > clients uses his profile (with extended characters) this is > simply rejected > by the API, I understand for having non-ASCII characters. > > Well if my client has an OpenSRS profile, supposedly valid for all domains > comercialized by OpenSRS I don't really get why this problem is not solved > some how by Tucows system itself. I can understand that if > Afilias has been > thick enough to think that only english speakers will be registering its > domains, there is not much to do by OpenSRS, but I also think > that some kind > of alternative, suggestion, autoupdate function or character substitution > system should be established for this cases. > > Our alternative is going to be having 2 different validation methods, > forcing our clients to maintain two profiles one for infos, one > for the rest > and having to disable all bulk registrations that include both coms and > infos. > > Any other suggestions for solving this will be of help. > Thanks. > > > > > Jose Luis Moya >
