Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?
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Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?
#2I thought this ICANN decision just opened the way for internationalized TLDs, and that the rest of the domain name was already internationalized. Thanks to anyone who can help clarify this.
Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?
#3Internationalizing the domains names is utterly pointless. Most keyboards in the world are in latin, which means that people who use a different alphabet have to switch keyboard mode. It's just not convenient. Imagine this:
> goole.com
> Alt-Shift-Win (to switch)
> говедо.ком
> Alt-Shift-Win (switch back)
Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?
#4Internationalizing the domains names is utterly pointless. Most keyboards in the world are in latin, which means that people who use a different alphabet have to switch keyboard mode. It's just not convenient. Imagine this: > goole.com > Alt-Shift-Win (to switch) > говедо.ком > Alt-Shift-Win (switch back) Bah ... bulshit.
Why do you think that Google woudn't register something like гугл.рф? I think it's for folks from the pure rural areas who don't know the latin alphabet at all. They have a right to use computers and the internet too.
Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?
#5I thought this ICANN decision just opened the way for internationalized TLDs, and that the rest of the domain name was already internationalized. Thanks to anyone who can help clarify this.
I answered myself on this other thread. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=913284
Every other part of the URL including the rest of the domain name can already be Unicode encoded. This is how spoofing attacks are formed by using non-Latin characters in domain names that look like the Latin characters they replace.
This latest ICANN decision doesn't seem to make anything less convenient for the English speaking world than it already was.
Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?
#6oh please, like we are supposed to believe ICANN cares about internalization. The only reason they want to do this, is to make more money off the fees from the idiots who'll buy these crappy domains.
We've seen hundreds of TLDs launched that were touted as game changers. .info, .biz, .us, and those are the big ones, and noone wants them. .COM is king, it is ingrained in internet users worldwide.
Yes local countries have their .rus and .chs but that's the whole point. The QWERTY keyboard is the standard worldwide.
Trying to bypass that, just reeks of opportunism
Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?
#7Internationalizing the domains names is utterly pointless. Most keyboards in the world are in latin, which means that people who use a different alphabet have to switch keyboard mode. It's just not convenient. Imagine this: > goole.com > Alt-Shift-Win (to switch) > говедо.ком > Alt-Shift-Win (switch back) Bah ... bulshit.
Why do you think that Google woudn't register something like гугл.рф? I think it's for folks from the pure rural areas who don't know the latin alphabet at all. They have a right to use computers and the internet too.
But... the keyboards.
Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?
#8oh please, like we are supposed to believe ICANN cares about internalization. The only reason they want to do this, is to make more money off the fees from the idiots who'll buy these crappy domains. We've seen hundreds of TLDs launched that were touted as game changers. .info, .biz, .us, and those are the big ones, and noone wants them. .COM is king, it is ingrained in internet users worldwide. Yes local countries h…
You'd be surprised. I'd say the vast majority of URLs I see around in Japan end in .jp. Hitting ctrl+enter after an URL will add www and .co.jp on most computers, not .com. Few people understand english sufficiently to browse the english-speaking internet; the best example is probably Facebook, which is rarely used here, while its local equivalent mixi.jp is extremely popular.
Also, the QWERTY keyboard is just not the standard worldwide...
That being said, I don't think people will start using japanese URLs much. The alphabet + .jp is already ingrained and more convenient. Also, most phones will refuse japanese characters in an email adress and perhaps in an URL, which is a game breaker here.
Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?
#9oh please, like we are supposed to believe ICANN cares about internalization. The only reason they want to do this, is to make more money off the fees from the idiots who'll buy these crappy domains. We've seen hundreds of TLDs launched that were touted as game changers. .info, .biz, .us, and those are the big ones, and noone wants them. .COM is king, it is ingrained in internet users worldwide. Yes local countries h…
Hey, hey! Don't be putting down .info. It brought about millions of spam sites!
Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?
#10I thought this ICANN decision just opened the way for internationalized TLDs, and that the rest of the domain name was already internationalized. Thanks to anyone who can help clarify this.
I answered myself on this other thread. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=913284 Every other part of the URL including the rest of the domain name can already be Unicode encoded. This is how spoofing attacks are formed by using non-Latin characters in domain names that look like the Latin characters they replace. This latest ICANN decision doesn't seem to make anything less convenient for the English speaking world…
Yeah, this is the biggest problem with the proposed change to URLs. When you can have two different characters that are visually identical but have different meaning to computers, you have a serious security problem.