So what do our resident web heads think of this?

[DaveB]

Icann aproves none latin characters in domain names.

Re-writing DNS to recognise non latin character sets is going to be fun

[pzz76077]

Icann aproves none latin characters in domain names.

Re-writing DNS to recognise non latin character sets is going to be fun

I thought that this happened ages ago, China etc have been using their own characters for a while now??

PZZ

[Pondlife]

I thought that this happened ages ago, China etc have been using their own characters for a while now??

PZZ

Not in domain names they haven't.

[pzz76077]

Not in domain names they haven't.

Are you sure: http://www.unicodedn.com/

PZZ

[DaveB]

Are you sure: http://www.unicodedn.com/

PZZ

Thats a localised commercial service for Chinese/Japanese/Korean language only on a paid for basis. It would only work if you were using that companies DNS service. You couldnt type the domain name into your PC in the UK and expect your ISP's DNS service to sort it out.

This change means providing global DNS implementation of all non-latin characters - Greek, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic as well as the oriental langauges in exactly the same way as it is now for conventional characters.

[AtW]

That will do wonders to all the legacy software that was using ASCII to validate domain names...

[HairyArsedBloke]

That will do wonders to all the legacy software that was using ASCII to validate domain names...

Has a new entry found it's way on to your 'to do' list then?

[AtW]

Has a new entry found it's way on to your 'to do' list then?

Yeah, good thing we got some time until they approve that tulip...

[DaveB]

Yeah, good thing we got some time until they approve that tulip...

But not that much time....

Icann said it would accept the first applications for IDNs by 16 November, with the first up and running by "mid-2010".

[pzz76077]

Thats a localised commercial service for Chinese/Japanese/Korean language only on a paid for basis. It would only work if you were using that companies DNS service. You couldnt type the domain name into your PC in the UK and expect your ISP's DNS service to sort it out.

This change means providing global DNS implementation of all non-latin characters - Greek, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic as well as the oriental langauges in exactly the same way as it is now for conventional characters.

As I said, it has been available for a while. There are loads of these services around, Arabic also that I have seen recently even some free ones.

PZZ