[82466] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Tue Jul 19 07:37:07 2005
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:33:51 +0100 (BST)
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Unfortunately, the problem is inherent in human writing systems.
> Consider rnicrosoft.com and paypaI.com.
And people are no better than muppets in ensuring they don't
screw themselves up
> The good news is that fairly simple homograph rules can be applied
Rules aren't safe, it involves humans.
I presume that if a Chinese bank were to register their name then the
similar .com would be blocked for them (just as the Chinese paypal
alike would be blocked). What if the .com is a blogger, would the
Chinese bank accept being blocked, would they exert pressure to have
theirs anyway or would the blogger be fair game for lawyers/ICANN
managed domain hijacking?
"If it's too hard people won't understand it"
brandon
