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    Internationalized, Non-Latin Domain Names Officially Approved

    Internet Finally Getting Non-Latin Domain Names

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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    10/30/09

    In reply to Internationalized, Non-Latin Domain Names Officially Approved
    Time to register pàypal.ca!
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    Edited by jepzilla at 10/30/09 7:03 PM jepzilla was starred jepzilla was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan 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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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    10/30/09

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

    @Rosa Golijan: quélástima.com! #nonlatintopleveldomains
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    Image of jepzilla 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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    Edited by jepzilla at 10/30/09 7:14 PM jepzilla was starred jepzilla was unstarred
    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/30/09

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

    In reply to Internationalized, Non-Latin Domain Names Officially Approved
    I'm just wondering how I'm gonna visit some of these sites with only my US keyboard... #nonlatintopleveldomains
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    Image of aek8 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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    TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment aek8 was starred aek8 was unstarred
    Image of Chimaera 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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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    10/30/09

    In reply to Internationalized, Non-Latin Domain Names Officially Approved
    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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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment Gordonium was starred Gordonium was unstarred
    Image of ripfire ripfire
    10/30/09

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

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

    In reply to Internet Finally Getting Non-Latin Domain Names
    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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    Image of hfutrell hfutrell
    10/27/09

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

    @MadMacs: :) Typo
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    Edited by MadMacs at 10/27/09 12:41 PM MadMacs was starred MadMacs was unstarred
    Image of MadMacs MadMacs
    10/27/09

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

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

    @hfutrell: Somehow, my reply was posted to the wrong response.
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    Edited by MadMacs at 10/28/09 1:00 AM MadMacs was starred MadMacs was unstarred
    Image of hfutrell hfutrell
    10/28/09

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

    In reply to Internet Finally Getting Non-Latin Domain Names
    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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    Image of TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
    10/26/09

    In reply to Internet Finally Getting Non-Latin Domain Names
    [www.ÆØÅ.æøå] #nonlatintopleveldomains
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    TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. was starred TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of bobofish bobofish
    10/26/09

    In reply to Internet Finally Getting Non-Latin Domain Names
    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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    Image of Paul Beardfacé Paul Beardfacé
    10/26/09

    In reply to Internet Finally Getting Non-Latin Domain Names
    אניגרZOמ'דo.com
    زضطمسدس.com
    मैंमीZओजीओघ.com
    hmm #nonlatintopleveldomains
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    valkilmerisawful promoted this comment Paul Beardfacé was starred Paul Beardfacé was unstarred
    Image of valkilmerisawful 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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    Image of Paul Beardfacé Paul Beardfacé
    10/27/09

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

    In reply to Internet Finally Getting Non-Latin Domain Names
    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 promoted this comment wannahakkalooki was starred wannahakkalooki was unstarred
    Image of ripfire ripfire
    10/26/09

    @wannahakkalooki: Think of it as a way to racially profile a website. #nonlatintopleveldomains
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    Image of wannahakkalooki 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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    Image of kagekiri 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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    Edited by kagekiri at 10/26/09 7:32 PM kagekiri was starred kagekiri was unstarred
    Image of wannahakkalooki 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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    Image of CraigJ CraigJ
    10/26/09

    In reply to Internet Finally Getting Non-Latin Domain Names
    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 promoted this comment CraigJ was starred CraigJ was unstarred
    Image of kagekiri 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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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    10/26/09

    In reply to Internet Finally Getting Non-Latin Domain Names
    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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