Many persons have registered names in the "regular" name space already
RACE encoded - so their regular ASCII versions (like you see below) are
there...
However - these will not (supposedly) work properly with decoded MLDNs
if/when the VeriSign root actually starts resolving.
Charles Daminato TUCOWS Product Manager (ccTLDs) chuck@tucows.com
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, John Keegan wrote:
> > It resolves because the dns sees it as it is. Just the same as
> > http://www.bq--3ci46w2qaawwlyd6x52tk.com /net/org
>
> That part is evident. It just does not jive with Ken Joy's statement that:
>
> > Multilingual domains will not resolve in DNS at all
>
> This is the clarification I am seeking. Is it that the names "will not
> resolve at all" or that they will not resolve as anything but ASCII
> characters? There is a huge difference.
>
> --
> John Keegan
> john@RackShare.com
> http://RackShare.com
>
>
> > From: "Merlin" <robert@chalmers.com.au>
> > Organization: Quantum Radio
> > Reply-To: "Merlin" <robert@chalmers.com.au>
> > Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 10:54:06 +1000
> > To: "John Keegan" <john@rackshare.com>, "Ken Joy" <kjoy@tucows.com>,
> > <dev-list@opensrs.org>
> > Subject: Re: mlds and nameserver modification
> >
> >
> > But there is no way BIND will understand the Chinese character version of
> > that.. The native language if you like. (Chinese in this
> > case).
> > It needs that rACE decoding between it and the BIND interface.
> >
> > .
> > bob
> > ---
> > Robert Chalmers
> > http://www.quantum-radio.net.au Quantum Radio
> > robert@quantum-radio.net.au
> > http://www.inexpensivewebsites.com Inexpensive Web Sites
> > info@inexpensivewebsites.com
> >
> >
> >
> >>> Multilingual domains will not resolve in DNS at all...so nameserver changes
> >>> are largely irrelevant. We will probably allow people to change them
> >>> eventually, but since they don't resolve, it's not a priority. (To give you
> >>> some perspective, .ca changes ARE a priority, and we don't have that done
> >>> yet)
> >>
> >> Do you mean resolve to their native language encoding?
> >>
> >> Because I happened to come across a domain that does resolve:
> >>
> >> http://bq--3bmspgai.com/
> >>
> >> Does this name resolve because it was not registered properly (i.e. without
> >> the character set bit) or is there some other explanation?
> >>
> >> --
> >> John Keegan
> >> john@RackShare.com
> >> http://RackShare.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
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