[LINK] ICANN's non-Latin domain names

[Kim Holburn]

On 2010/Jan/03, at 1:16 PM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:

> In Firefox on Linux, the remapping is visible.

In firefox on the mac the url shows as http://www.xn--maana-pta.com/.   
In Safari it shows as http://mañana.com/.  If I spoke only Spanish or  
if it were a Chinese site and I spoke only Chinese you would want to  
see the URL in your own language.  It's be nice to have some way of  
seeing the actual "code" of the URL though.

I wonder though, what will happen when you get various mixtures of  
languages in the one URL, say Chinese TLD and korean 2LD and russian  
domain.

> Gee, what a great
> phishing opportunity ... habituate users to URL remapping. *Great*  
> idea,
> Batman!
>
> RC
>
> Ivan Trundle wrote:
>> On 03/01/2010, at 12:06 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
>>
>>
>>> For example, try going to http://mañana.com (presuming my mail  
>>> client inserts that correctly...) and you should find that the URL  
>>> changes to
>>> http://xn--maana-pta.com/
>>>
>>
>> In Safari, I see mañana.com - the URL is not changed.
>>
>> iT
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