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Legal reasons for IDN

Discussion in 'Nominet General Information' started by Whois-Search, Oct 25, 2006.

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    Whois-Search Well-Known Member

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    Many of you will have seen the IDN argument on Nom-steer and as I can't be bothered to "start them off" again I thought I'd post this here instead.......

    As Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7 now support IDN with added spoofing/phishing filters:

    IDN-enabled TLDs

    Internet Explorer 7: features

    Will people now expect to register IDN .uk domain names? What if I was called Cédric and wanted Cédric.co.uk ?

    Also could these people sue Nominet if they did not provide it on accessibility grounds?
     
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    IANAL... but.... I want a car that runs on air, costs less than £20 and never breaks down. No car company provides this but I can't sue them! :p

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    Correction.... I could sue them, but I would would not win
     
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    IT Week - 06 Nov 2006

    New plan to shape the future of the web - IT Week

    Time for the PAB to get their act together and approve it.
     
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    retired_member6 Banned

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    So they're just on about making all domains accept all characters? I thought they were on about bringing out another extension for it.
     
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    The real answer is both are an issue, but the international issue is more related to the top level as you identify. After all why should the Chinese not get to use ".中" or the Japanese ".日本" instead of .cn/.jp to save switching character sets?

    The issue also exists for current domains since they are used for international trade and why shouldn't a UK company selling to China that wants to also promote its UK origin not use a Chinese .co.uk domain for example?

    Gordon
     
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