IDNA 2008 Question Re: "Confusable" Characters in Domain Names
Cary Karp
ck at nic.museum
Sat Nov 6 00:14:39 CET 2010
Quoting Mark:
>> One thing to add to this, which is that registries and
>> registrars were strongly advised, from the beginning, to not
>> register names containing characters other than letters, digits,
>> and the hyphen (with the first two groups expanded to cover
>> non-ASCII characters).
>
> Where were these recommendations made?
>
> Were these recommendations in a location where most people responsible
> for registries and registrars (including non TLDs, like blogspot.com
> <http://blogspot.com>) were very likely to see it?
Try:
http://www.icann.org/topics/idn/idn-guidelines-26apr07.pdf
and its earlier versions. These Guidelines are contractually binding on
all the gTLD registries and the stricture on the characters under
contention was there right from the outset.
/Cary
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