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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