For anyone on the list who would like to see how Verisign's ML.com domain name registrations can work right now in a lightweight URL-based system (which is what most users want right now anyway - not "domain names") using any local, UTF8 or ACE encoding, I've set up a demonstration of all of the multilingual domain names registered by Verisign under <ml>.com up until Nov., 2001, which currently resolve as bq--??.mltbd.com in the Verisign name servers. These will all work as ML URLs under the .com.nu domain.
So the domain name alings�s.com, which was registered by Register.com for one of its customers, and which currently resolves as the ACE domain name bq--abqwy2lom5z6k4y.mltbd.com to the Register.com "parked" page, will also resolve to the same parked page if the URL http://alings�s.com.nu/ is used, whether that URL is encoded as UTF-8 UNICODE or ISO-8859-1. The same holds true for the domain name l�esprit.com which was registered for a customer by WorldNames and which points to the WorldNames parked page either as bq--ed7wygp7mx7xh73q75zp62p7oq.mltbd.com or as http://l�esprit.com.nu/. Also try the NetSol customer's URL, http://w�rterbuch.com.nu/ . I'm not reproducing any Asian, Arabic or similar URLs here for obvious reasons, but anyone on the list who knows of an Asian, etc., <ml>.com domain name that was registered before November, 2001, should feel free to test the system using any local encoding as the URL (not just ACE and not just UTF-8). Note that the RealNames/Microsoft "error" based search tool does not get into the act with these URLs, since there's no error for it to respond to. These also all will work for hypertext links on a Web page, using local language encoding or UTF-8, and can also be saved as "favorites" in IE. Bill Semich .NU Domain
