Mixing scripts (Re: Unicode versions (Re: Criteria for exceptional characters))

[Gervase Markham]

Marcos Sanz/Denic wrote:
>> The only reason I can think of for allowing the mixing of Latin, 
>> Cyrillic, and Greek letters is to allow registrars and/or registries 
>> make bucketloads of money on such mixed labels.
> 
> Another reason I could think of for a registry to permit wild combinations 
> of characters in a name is that it could well be that it's _not_ _their_ 
> _task_ to decide which names are registrable or not.

I assume you are speaking for yourself and not for DENIC?

 From http://www.denic.de/en/richtlinien.html:

"DENIC may, however, reject the application if the registration were to 
be manifestly illegal."

"In addition to the TLD ending ".de", a domain may only be comprised of 
digits (0–9), hyphens, the letters A–Z and the other letters, which are 
listed in the annex... It is not permitted to give the domain the name 
of any other TLD (such as .com, .net, .org or any of the country code 
TLDs) or any of the combinations of letters that are used for 
road-vehicle licence plates in Germany indicating the district in which 
they are issued, or any combination that would result from replacing an 
umlaut in such a licence-plate geographic abbreviation with the 
two-letter equivalent, i.e. ä with ae, ö with oe or ü with ue."

Gerv