Re: [DNS] Announcing .NU Domains using Ö, Ä, Å, Ü, Ñ - And More (fwd)

Re: [DNS] Announcing .NU Domains using Ö, Ä, Å, Ü, Ñ - And More (fwd)

From: Nick Andrew <nick§zeta.org.au>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:58:59 +1100
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 12:36:53PM +1100, Craig Clark wrote:
> 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. 
>[...]
> Examples which we are currently testing include: 
> http://SödraKärr.se.nu, http://FöreningsSparbanken.se.nu/, 
> http://domän.se.nu and http://tillbehör.se.nu/

Yeah, that'll be just great. Now you'll need a degree in internationalization
to parse a domain name and they will become impossible to type. Ok, I admit
I can type ä with alt-d into xterm but I bet a lot of people cannot.

Double-byte domain names, anyone?

Nick.
-- 
Zeta Internet                     SP4   Fax: +61-2-9233-6545 Voice: 9231-9400
G.P.O. Box 3400, Sydney NSW 1043        http://www.zeta.org.au/
Received on Fri Jan 07 2000 - 10:59:03 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Sat Sep 09 2017 - 22:00:03 UTC