On Fre, 2009-10-30 at 19:23 +0000, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 15:10 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Terry Carmen wrote: > > >> approval to a plan to permit Web addresses in characters other than the > > >> Latin alphabet, including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and Korean. > > > I'd be *really* surprised if these became popular. The last thing any > > > business wants to do is create a domain name that some of it's customers > > > can't read or type. > > > > Uh, good logic, but not an obstacle. It's the *reason* for this. ACK. Lots of companies will feel forced to buy many more domain names (for various reasons - if only that no one else can get it).
[...] > > :) > > > > - Charles > It brings us to a whole new era in Cybersqatting. I'm lining up the And phishing - similar to years ago when IDN was "deployed!". > Chinese versions of McDonalds, Pepsi, Coke........ Think about domain names which (ab)use IDN to generate a very similar text strings (read: glyphs) (especially with the default font in our beloved monopoly-OS) to serious ones. Well, IDN was deployed years ago ..... > Im going to be *so* rich..... Others too. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services
