The reverse problem is more difficult to deal with -- that of people wanting to access Chinese (or whatever) sites that can only be found in the Chinese-owned alternative root.
There was a time when email service was almost universally bundled with Internet access service. Nowadays it is quite common for people to get their email service from a different supplier than their access. There is no reason why DNS resolution could not similarly be unbundled from access. Yes, there would be some latency issues to deal with, but they are not insurmountable. And as I mentioned before, one easy way around all this is for people who want to access content in a specific foreign language to sign up for access with an ISP which provides specific support for that foreign language. If you want to get to sites in China using alternate domain names then you simply buy your DSL line from an ISP who uses the alternate roots. And as a bonus, you will probably also be able to get technical support in Chinese as well. All these people complaining about how this divides the Internet and makes it harder for them to talk to someone in China seem to have missed the fact that there is already a divide caused by different languages. If the Internet is to become a global universal network then, by definition, it must become balkanized. --Michael Dillon