Re: Eeek - .NU Domains using Ö, Ä, Å, Ü, Ñ - And More

["John M. Brown" <jmbrown () ihighway net>]

Ahh, lets just move to UniCode! :)  I mean 63 char SLD's and then this...

On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 05:53:39PM -0500, Kai Schlichting wrote:
> Fellow NANOG readers,
>
> The following is sure to
> a.) break a lot of things DNS, Mail and Web-wise
> b.) have major impact in the form of confused customers calling
>      your customer service departments
> c.) will hopefully fail.
>
> If the .NU people think they can undo RFC 1035 section 2.3.1
> (see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1035.html ) and bury interoperability
> at large for nothing else but sleazily gaining some commercial advantage
> in the registrar business, they are *so* wrong.
>
> bye,Kai
>
>
> > From: bill () mail nic nu
> > To: XXXXXXXXXXX () XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX
> > Subject: Announcing .NU Domains using Ö, Ä, Å, Ü, Ñ - And More
> > Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:00:00 -0500
> > X-Mailer: Allaire ColdFusion Application Server
> >
> >
> > Hello;                                  January 6, 2000
> >
> > NU domain now has a new, exclusive service available - Support for your local
> > language character set in any .NU Domain name you have already registered. 
> >
> > You can pre-register today at http://www.nunames.nu/customers/secure
> >
> > Technical staff at .NU Domain, working under the guidance of 
> > Dr. Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Internet's Domain Name
> > System (DNS), are developing an updated version of the DNS software
> > used on the internet which allows .NU Domain to provide this unique
> > service. Although the service is in its Beta or early test period, .NU
> > Domain will now accept pre-registrations of domain names that use
> > Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and a wide
> > range of other European character sets in any .NU Domain name.
> >
> > Examples which we are currently testing include: 
> > http://SödraKärr.se.nu, http://FöreningsSparbanken.se.nu/, 
> > http://domän.se.nu and http://tillbehör.se.nu/
> >
> > For more information on this test, and the current limitations of the service,
> > please see http://www.nunames.nu/ISO-8859-test.htm 
> >
> > NU domain is now giving all current customers an advance opportunity 
> > to pre-register for this service, for a one-time fee of US$35. Since 
> > the service requires that you already have an "English Alphabet" .NU 
> > domain name registered and active (using only ASCII characters 
> > a-z, 0-9), we have decided to postpone public announcement of this
> > new European character set  service in order to allow our existing
> > customers to get first choice to pre-register their preferred domain
> > names using Swedish or other European language characters such as
> > Ö, Ä, Å, Ü, or Ñ.
> >
> > To pre-register now, and to qualify to take part in our test of this
> > unique new service, please go to 
> > http://www.nunames.nu/customers/secure and log in to modify your
> > current .NU domain name to add this new service. Current policies 
> > expect that your pre-registered domain name will be similar to your
> > current .NU domain name, with the addition of a Swedish or other
> > language's character(s) (for example, domain.nu and domän.nu).
> >
> > We will start accepting public registrations for this new service, which 
> > will require registration of an English alphabet .NU domain name as well,
> > starting next week (January 10, 2000), on a first-come, first-served basis.
> >
> > And remember - no other Top Level domain in the world offers
> > this unique service. So we expect public interest - and registration rates - to
> > be very strong once we announce the service.
> >
> > Although we are not yet offering pre-registration for Asian names (using
> > Japanese, Chinese and other characters) we expect to also support those
> > language sets in the near future. Customers in Japan may want to contact
> > NU Certified Registrar, Kurosawa.net, http://www.nihongo.nu, for more
> > information (email support () kurosawa net).
> >
> > If you have any questions about this new service, please contact our
> > support desk at support () mail nic nu or email me directly.
> >
> > Many thanks for your continuing support for .NU domain!
> >
> > Bill Semich
> > President and Founder
> > NU Domain Ltd
> > http://whats.nu
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >