On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 15:40 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote: > While the new character-sets are great for business within a country, > they're not great for anybody planning on doing business in foreign (to > them) locations. > > "The Excellent Rice Company" can pick any Chinese characters they want, > but if they want business from outside the country, un-typable > un-recognizable characters won't help. > The likely upshot is that ICANN and its registrars will sell a shedload of extra domain names.
Companies in countries with non-Latin scripts who have business inside and outside their home country will end up keeping their Latin script domain, logically split their website in two and add on a local script domain name for the local version of the website. Many Asian companies will end up doing this several times, e.g. I'd expect big Japanese car companies to end up with Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hindi, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and Latin websites and the corresponding domains. I have no idea how this will affect the spam flood, but if ICANN and whoever make DNS work in Unicode DNS think things through correctly, all these related domains will probably end up logically linked in namespace. Using CNAME records in a single zone may do the trick provided zones are extended to contain multiple domains. It seems to me this would be beneficial for all. Martin > Terry
