Mixing scripts (Re: Unicode versions (Re: Criteria for
exceptional characters))
Gervase Markham
gerv at mozilla.org
Thu Dec 21 15:36:46 CET 2006
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
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