NSI Multilingual Domain Names

[Jean-Christophe Smith]

They are already "selling" these names:
http://global.networksolutions.com/purchasing/welcome.jhtml

In Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean character sets.

Jean-Christophe Smith
Publichost.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Manning
To: rob at accessweb.com
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Sent: 2/1/01 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: NSI Multilingual Domain Names


 Perhaps a bit more research is in order. NSI is operating a TESTBED
 to explore the ramifications of supporting International charactersets.


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% It recently came to my attention that Network Solutions
% is selling domain names with Chinese and Korean characters.
% What I am wondering is how this can work on a global
% scale when those characters are not valid for use with DNS?
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% Robert M.V. Beghin,
% General Manager &
% Network Administrator
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% Access Internet Inc.
% 9868 - 63 Avenue
% Edmonton AB
% Canada T6E0G6
% voice: (780) 944-0745
% fax:(780) 435-9989
% email: rob at accessweb.com
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--bill