Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer () bfk de> wrote:
> * Dan Kaminsky:
>
> > Oh, come off it.  There are reasons to make changes to networks other
> > than security.  It's a genuine, non-corrupt reasonable demand that you
> > should be able to have your own language in DNS.
>
> If it's only about language, it's not reasonable at all.  "com" isn't
> English, "de" isn't German, "cat" probably isn't Catalan.  By that
> reason, every ccTLD needs multiple additional TLDs (offical and
> semi-official country name
>
> (Poor FYROM.  There are '"'s in the country's official name, so it
> can't be put into DNS even with IDNA.)

Not all languages use roman orthographies.  If Microsoft wants to have
a Chinese version of their site with chinese(microsoft).chinese(cn),
on what grounds do you get to insist that it should only be
chinese(microsoft).cn?

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