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jepzilla
10/30/09

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Time to register pàypal.ca!
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Rosa Golijan
10/30/09

@jepzilla: Bad news for you:

"One of the key parts of the IDN system renders all those fears about our precious dot coms being invaded by shady, foreign characters for naught, because only country-specific domain names, those with two letter designations such as .cn or .ae, are affected by this approval." #nonlatintopleveldomains
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jepzilla
10/30/09

@Rosa Golijan: Better example now. ;-) #nonlatintopleveldomains
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Rosa Golijan
10/30/09

@jepzilla: You editing cheater!

And those are technically still Latin characters, even if accents aren't really supported at the time. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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ripfire
10/30/09

@Rosa Golijan: quélástima.com! #nonlatintopleveldomains
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jepzilla
10/30/09

@Rosa Golijan: In my defense, you hadn't replied when I started editing.

Of course, the real trainwreck will come when people want unicode vTLDs. Then we can have paypal.cסּm.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/30/09

@jepzilla: I'm registering méféadcáisceapaire.ie #nonlatintopleveldomains
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Xagest
10/30/09

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I'm just wondering how I'm gonna visit some of these sites with only my US keyboard... #nonlatintopleveldomains
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aek8
10/30/09

@Xagest: Windows supports a lot of keyboard setups even if the hardware is still a qwerty. I run US International which is pretty great. It keeps all the keys in the same spot but when you press the apostrophe it waits until you press the next letter. If it's a vowel or another accent-able letter it automatically puts the accent on for you. Same function with the grave/tilde key.

For example
á, é, í, ó, ú and even ý. Similarly, ä, ë, ï, ö, ü and ÿ. And then there's ñ, Ñ, ã, û, etc., etc...

Sorry I got a bit carried away there, but I do love my foreign characters/languages. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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Chimaera
10/30/09

@Xagest: Character Map is your friend.
Also, Alt+#### (Alt+156=£, Alt+1701=Ñ)
And thirdly, I imagine bit.ly and tinyurl will help. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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Gordonium
10/30/09

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It's a good thing the ICANN isn't run like Apple, or they'd start inexplicably rejecting domain names for being certain languages. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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ripfire
10/30/09

@Gordonium: Anything Apple can do ICANN do better. ICANN do anything better than you! #nonlatintopleveldomains
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Gordonium
10/30/09

@ripfire: L ... O ... [restart] L ... #nonlatintopleveldomains
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MadMacs
10/26/09

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There was one advantage of latin type URL's. A lot of the URL's were in English, and this forced more people to learn to speak and read English, and allowing them to actually read some western News sources.

hmmmmm. Well, maybe. Just a thought. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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hfutrell
10/27/09

@MadMacs: seriously, provincial much? What about encouraging English speakers to do the reverse? #nonlatintopleveldomains
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OCEntertainment
10/27/09

@hfutrell: Thank you.

"Come on, guys! This is just gonna mean more work for us (maybe, in rare circumstances)! Just make everybody else learn English!"

Like everybody on the other side isn't saying some variant of the same. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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MadMacs
10/27/09

@MadMacs: :) Typo
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MadMacs
10/27/09

@hfutrell: I'm sorry, I was wrong. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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hfutrell
10/27/09

@MadMacs: quite alright. Sorry for stating my opinion in an inflammatory way. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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MadMacs
10/28/09

@hfutrell: Somehow, my reply was posted to the wrong response.
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hfutrell
10/28/09

@MadMacs: hah, ok. Well anyway, I still apologize for being a dick. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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OCEntertainment
10/26/09

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Thus it begins. Sage Whedon did thusly predict: in 500 years, the two most dominant languages will be Chinese and English, so folks in the future will likely be brought up to learn both.

So, for the gorram Ung jeong jia Ching Jien Soh who are opposed: don't bother me none if you get left behind. Winds of change, they're-a blowing. Can't stand still in these parts, too long, you'll get blown away. We're close to gone out here. We get a chance at peace on this internet, we gotta make good. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
10/26/09

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[www.ÆØÅ.æøå] #nonlatintopleveldomains
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bobofish
10/26/09

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This makes no sense to me, even though it is more touchy feely.

In aviation, the official language is English, and even a commuter plane pilot from Munich to Leipzig has to be talking in English. Not because English has such a rich literary mojo (which it does) but because the stray Russian MiG pilot on a munchie run needs to know whether to go north or south to hit the best Bratwurst stand.

The internet should be the same. The only truly international script we have at the moment is Latin. While in 30 or 40 years maybe we'll all need to know Chinese, Latin scripts and English work really well to connect people that don't know each other and don't know each others' native languages together to share info and pron. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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Paul Beardfacé
10/26/09

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אניגרZOמ'דo.com
زضطمسدس.com
मैंमीZओजीओघ.com
hmm #nonlatintopleveldomains
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valkilmerisawful
10/26/09

@Paul Beardfacé: Not sure that arabic one works. In fact, I'm not sure how Arabic-speaking countries use the internet? moc.زضطمسدس.www\\:ptth ? I wonder... #nonlatintopleveldomains
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Paul Beardfacé
10/27/09

@valkilmerisawful: perhaps they turn the monitor around and face it into a mirror? #nonlatintopleveldomains
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wannahakkalooki
10/26/09

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Well, it's going to make things more interesting when searching for info or when you have to type url's.
Don't expect me to type: صاجضسذ.com!
No idea what the hell it says there... probably nothing and Arab goes right to left anyway so I got it all messed up.

Oh well I guess it will make things easier for other countries using non Latin characters #nonlatintopleveldomains
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ripfire
10/26/09

@wannahakkalooki: Think of it as a way to racially profile a website. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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wannahakkalooki
10/26/09

@ripfire: I know!!!
And how the hell will I know if the site says "greekhotchicks" for example or "greekhungdudes"????
Totally messes everything up #nonlatintopleveldomains
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kagekiri
10/26/09

@wannahakkalooki: For what it's worth, I doubt you'd be doing random searches for websites written in languages you cannot write or read with. Otherwise, just get romanized software in the language you need, or save the links (links are the main way I find foreign sites that would be interesting anyway).
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wannahakkalooki
10/26/09

@kagekiri: true... and based on Hollywood Greek chics are not that hot anyway.
On a more serious side I actually think this will create a split in the volume of traffic routed to pages we commonly use, so who knows in a way it might be beneficial for us.
Not sure we will have to wait a month or so to actually see the impact of this decision. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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CraigJ
10/26/09

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Why does everything have to be boiled down to racism? I'm really surprised to find that ASCII and single-byte Unicode are racist. Who knew? Also surprised to find out that only white people speak languages derived from Latin. Perhaps Latinos will be surprised to learn they are white? #nonlatintopleveldomains
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kagekiri
10/26/09

@CraigJ: Not really racist so much as favoring some languages over others.

But yeah, the "white man" comment felt a little odd to me as an Asian-American who can't speak too much besides English. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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Duckspwn
10/26/09

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Oh that's what we would like you to think. In reality we are merely opening the floodgates so that we may more closely monitor our non-white bretheren. Yes, we are evil. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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