Bill Semich deserves congratulations in moving forward
with establishing the principle that the formation of
domain names is a business matter and should be left to
each registry and the marketplace to sort out - not ICANN
or its staff opining to the press with purported authority.
By the way, hte new NU names work great!
--tony
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Announcing .NU Domains using �, �, �, �, � - And More
>Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:00:00 -0500
>
>
>Hello; January 6, 2000
>
>NU domain now has a new, exclusive service available - Support for your local
>language character set in any .NU Domain name you have already registered.
>
>You can pre-register today at http://www.nunames.nu/customers/secure
>
>Technical staff at .NU Domain, working under the guidance of
>Dr. Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Internet's Domain Name
>System (DNS), are developing an updated version of the DNS software
>used on the internet which allows .NU Domain to provide this unique
>service. Although the service is in its Beta or early test period, .NU
>Domain will now accept pre-registrations of domain names that use
>Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and a wide
>range of other European character sets in any .NU Domain name.
>
>Examples which we are currently testing include:
>http://S�draK�rr.se.nu, http://F�reningsSparbanken.se.nu/,
>http://dom�n.se.nu and http://tillbeh�r.se.nu/
>
>For more information on this test, and the current limitations of the
service,
>please see http://www.nunames.nu/ISO-8859-test.htm
>
>NU domain is now giving all current customers an advance opportunity
>to pre-register for this service, for a one-time fee of US$35. Since
>the service requires that you already have an "English Alphabet" .NU
>domain name registered and active (using only ASCII characters
>a-z, 0-9), we have decided to postpone public announcement of this
>new European character set service in order to allow our existing
>customers to get first choice to pre-register their preferred domain
>names using Swedish or other European language characters such as
>�, �, �, �, or �.
>
>To pre-register now, and to qualify to take part in our test of this
>unique new service, please go to
>http://www.nunames.nu/customers/secure and log in to modify your
>current .NU domain name to add this new service. Current policies
>expect that your pre-registered domain name will be similar to your
>current .NU domain name, with the addition of a Swedish or other
>language's character(s) (for example, domain.nu and dom�n.nu).
>
>We will start accepting public registrations for this new service, which
>will require registration of an English alphabet .NU domain name as well,
>starting next week (January 10, 2000), on a first-come, first-served basis.
>
>And remember - no other Top Level domain in the world offers
>this unique service. So we expect public interest - and registration
rates - to
>be very strong once we announce the service.
>
>Although we are not yet offering pre-registration for Asian names (using
>Japanese, Chinese and other characters) we expect to also support those
>language sets in the near future. Customers in Japan may want to contact
>NU Certified Registrar, Kurosawa.net, http://www.nihongo.nu, for more
>information (email [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
>
>If you have any questions about this new service, please contact our
>support desk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or email me directly.
>
>Many thanks for your continuing support for .NU domain!
>
>Bill Semich
>President and Founder
>NU Domain Ltd
>http://whats.nu
>
