Follow-up from Tuesday's discussion of digits in the

[Harald Alvestrand]

Shawn Steele wrote:
>> The registries just have to register two or three variants
>> with the digits mapped to different digit series.
>>     
>
> And that seems practical to me, since there are usually only two sets of digits involved. (0-9 and a native set).
>   
note that in the domain name "foo12345", there are 2 variants when digit 
mixing is prohibited, but 32 variants when 2 different digit sets are 
allowed.
> This is also like other cases existing today.  Eg: www.bücher.de will take you to www.buecher.de, so both variations have been registered.  To me this doesn't seem like an undue burden for either the registrar or the domain name owner since we're only talking about a couple of variations.
actually the .no registry doesn't offer any such bundling. If wurth.no, 
wuerth.no and würth.no takes you to 3 different websites, that is not 
against that registry's policy.
(in this particular case, all 3 names go to the same entity.... but not 
because there's a rule about it.)

                    Harald