A year of non-Latin script domain names

Re:A year of non-Latin script domain names by ujjvala on Monday June 13, 2011 @12:55AM (#2648175)

What would happen to top level domain names like .com, .net etc ? Even they use non-latin characters before .com, .net etc "com", "net" is still Latin.

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Re:A year of non-Latin script domain names by squeed on Monday June 13, 2011 @01:28AM (#2648230)

Not exactly. There are already IDN TLDs in existence.

More specifically, the "." is still a separator. Any component of the domain name can independently have xn-- and it will be interpreted as Punycode. Today you could register ujjvala.السعودية and it would be completely valid.

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Re:A year of non-Latin script domain names by codelion on Monday June 13, 2011 @01:04AM (#2648191)

I don't think they would let . be part of beginning or ending of the domain name.

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Re:A year of non-Latin script domain names by aw3c2 on Monday June 13, 2011 @04:50AM (#2648501)

You can have http://ai/ so I guess you can have anything.

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Re:A year of non-Latin script domain names by irragal on Monday June 13, 2011 @08:03AM (#2648741)

And I thought x.org was unusually short...

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Re:A year of non-Latin script domain names by ujjvala on Monday June 13, 2011 @01:23AM (#2648222)

. is by itself a Latin character.

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