Eeek - .NU Domains using Ö, Ä, Å, Ü, Ñ - And More
Fellow NANOG readers, The following is sure to a.) break a lot of things DNS, Mail and Web-wise b.) have major impact in the form of confused customers calling your customer service departments c.) will hopefully fail. If the .NU people think they can undo RFC 1035 section 2.3.1 (see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1035.html ) and bury interoperability at large for nothing else but sleazily gaining some commercial advantage in the registrar business, they are *so* wrong. bye,Kai
From: bill@mail.nic.nu To: XXXXXXXXXXX@XXXXXXXXXXXXX.XXX Subject: Announcing .NU Domains using Ö, Ä, Å, Ü, Ñ - And More Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:00:00 -0500 X-Mailer: Allaire ColdFusion Application Server
Hello; January 6, 2000
NU domain now has a new, exclusive service available - Support for your local language character set in any .NU Domain name you have already registered.
You can pre-register today at http://www.nunames.nu/customers/secure
Technical staff at .NU Domain, working under the guidance of Dr. Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), are developing an updated version of the DNS software used on the internet which allows .NU Domain to provide this unique service. Although the service is in its Beta or early test period, .NU Domain will now accept pre-registrations of domain names that use Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and a wide range of other European character sets in any .NU Domain name.
Examples which we are currently testing include: http://SödraKärr.se.nu, http://FöreningsSparbanken.se.nu/, http://domän.se.nu and http://tillbehör.se.nu/
For more information on this test, and the current limitations of the service, please see http://www.nunames.nu/ISO-8859-test.htm
NU domain is now giving all current customers an advance opportunity to pre-register for this service, for a one-time fee of US$35. Since the service requires that you already have an "English Alphabet" .NU domain name registered and active (using only ASCII characters a-z, 0-9), we have decided to postpone public announcement of this new European character set service in order to allow our existing customers to get first choice to pre-register their preferred domain names using Swedish or other European language characters such as Ö, Ä, Å, Ü, or Ñ.
To pre-register now, and to qualify to take part in our test of this unique new service, please go to http://www.nunames.nu/customers/secure and log in to modify your current .NU domain name to add this new service. Current policies expect that your pre-registered domain name will be similar to your current .NU domain name, with the addition of a Swedish or other language's character(s) (for example, domain.nu and domän.nu).
We will start accepting public registrations for this new service, which will require registration of an English alphabet .NU domain name as well, starting next week (January 10, 2000), on a first-come, first-served basis.
And remember - no other Top Level domain in the world offers this unique service. So we expect public interest - and registration rates - to be very strong once we announce the service.
Although we are not yet offering pre-registration for Asian names (using Japanese, Chinese and other characters) we expect to also support those language sets in the near future. Customers in Japan may want to contact NU Certified Registrar, Kurosawa.net, http://www.nihongo.nu, for more information (email support@kurosawa.net).
If you have any questions about this new service, please contact our support desk at support@mail.nic.nu or email me directly.
Many thanks for your continuing support for .NU domain!
Bill Semich President and Founder NU Domain Ltd http://whats.nu
Anyone running modern BIND using default config will be abl unable to resolve such domain names. -- Alex Bligh GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)
Ahh, lets just move to UniCode! :) I mean 63 char SLD's and then this... On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 05:53:39PM -0500, Kai Schlichting wrote:
Fellow NANOG readers,
The following is sure to a.) break a lot of things DNS, Mail and Web-wise b.) have major impact in the form of confused customers calling your customer service departments c.) will hopefully fail.
If the .NU people think they can undo RFC 1035 section 2.3.1 (see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1035.html ) and bury interoperability at large for nothing else but sleazily gaining some commercial advantage in the registrar business, they are *so* wrong.
bye,Kai
From: bill@mail.nic.nu To: XXXXXXXXXXX@XXXXXXXXXXXXX.XXX Subject: Announcing .NU Domains using Ö, Ä, Å, Ü, Ñ - And More Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:00:00 -0500 X-Mailer: Allaire ColdFusion Application Server
Hello; January 6, 2000
NU domain now has a new, exclusive service available - Support for your local language character set in any .NU Domain name you have already registered.
You can pre-register today at http://www.nunames.nu/customers/secure
Technical staff at .NU Domain, working under the guidance of Dr. Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), are developing an updated version of the DNS software used on the internet which allows .NU Domain to provide this unique service. Although the service is in its Beta or early test period, .NU Domain will now accept pre-registrations of domain names that use Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and a wide range of other European character sets in any .NU Domain name.
Examples which we are currently testing include: http://SödraKärr.se.nu, http://FöreningsSparbanken.se.nu/, http://domän.se.nu and http://tillbehör.se.nu/
For more information on this test, and the current limitations of the service, please see http://www.nunames.nu/ISO-8859-test.htm
NU domain is now giving all current customers an advance opportunity to pre-register for this service, for a one-time fee of US$35. Since the service requires that you already have an "English Alphabet" .NU domain name registered and active (using only ASCII characters a-z, 0-9), we have decided to postpone public announcement of this new European character set service in order to allow our existing customers to get first choice to pre-register their preferred domain names using Swedish or other European language characters such as Ö, Ä, Å, Ü, or Ñ.
To pre-register now, and to qualify to take part in our test of this unique new service, please go to http://www.nunames.nu/customers/secure and log in to modify your current .NU domain name to add this new service. Current policies expect that your pre-registered domain name will be similar to your current .NU domain name, with the addition of a Swedish or other language's character(s) (for example, domain.nu and domän.nu).
We will start accepting public registrations for this new service, which will require registration of an English alphabet .NU domain name as well, starting next week (January 10, 2000), on a first-come, first-served basis.
And remember - no other Top Level domain in the world offers this unique service. So we expect public interest - and registration rates - to be very strong once we announce the service.
Although we are not yet offering pre-registration for Asian names (using Japanese, Chinese and other characters) we expect to also support those language sets in the near future. Customers in Japan may want to contact NU Certified Registrar, Kurosawa.net, http://www.nihongo.nu, for more information (email support@kurosawa.net).
If you have any questions about this new service, please contact our support desk at support@mail.nic.nu or email me directly.
Many thanks for your continuing support for .NU domain!
Bill Semich President and Founder NU Domain Ltd http://whats.nu
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Kai Schlichting wrote:
The following is sure to a.) break a lot of things DNS, Mail and Web-wise b.) have major impact in the form of confused customers calling your customer service departments c.) will hopefully fail.
This brings to mind the dilbert cartoon where dogbert is giving out his pager number with a tilde in it - so that noone can call him. Although this change is not with the same intent, I can still almost hear customers saying "how do I type that little n with a squiggley line over it?". Effectively, this would be equivalent in effect. Or even more fun, trying to convince users that a little n with a squiggley line over it ISN'T the same as just a plain old n. - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Interesting reading. Note that the iDNS folk have had this working for more than a year now, its finally broken the IETF event horizon and seems to have one solution to the issue. I am concerned about the commercial nature of the effort. Time will tell.
Fellow NANOG readers,
The following is sure to a.) break a lot of things DNS, Mail and Web-wise b.) have major impact in the form of confused customers calling your customer service departments c.) will hopefully fail.
If the .NU people think they can undo RFC 1035 section 2.3.1 (see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1035.html ) and bury interoperability at large for nothing else but sleazily gaining some commercial advantage in the registrar business, they are *so* wrong.
bye,Kai
From: bill@mail.nic.nu To: XXXXXXXXXXX@XXXXXXXXXXXXX.XXX Subject: Announcing .NU Domains using Ö, Ä, Å, Ü, Ñ - And More Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:00:00 -0500 X-Mailer: Allaire ColdFusion Application Server
Hello; January 6, 2000
NU domain now has a new, exclusive service available - Support for your local language character set in any .NU Domain name you have already registered.
You can pre-register today at http://www.nunames.nu/customers/secure
Technical staff at .NU Domain, working under the guidance of Dr. Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), are developing an updated version of the DNS software used on the internet which allows .NU Domain to provide this unique service. Although the service is in its Beta or early test period, .NU Domain will now accept pre-registrations of domain names that use Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and a wide range of other European character sets in any .NU Domain name.
Examples which we are currently testing include: http://SödraKärr.se.nu, http://FöreningsSparbanken.se.nu/, http://domän.se.nu and http://tillbehör.se.nu/
For more information on this test, and the current limitations of the service, please see http://www.nunames.nu/ISO-8859-test.htm
NU domain is now giving all current customers an advance opportunity to pre-register for this service, for a one-time fee of US$35. Since the service requires that you already have an "English Alphabet" .NU domain name registered and active (using only ASCII characters a-z, 0-9), we have decided to postpone public announcement of this new European character set service in order to allow our existing customers to get first choice to pre-register their preferred domain names using Swedish or other European language characters such as Ö, Ä, Å, Ü, or Ñ.
To pre-register now, and to qualify to take part in our test of this unique new service, please go to http://www.nunames.nu/customers/secure and log in to modify your current .NU domain name to add this new service. Current policies expect that your pre-registered domain name will be similar to your current .NU domain name, with the addition of a Swedish or other language's character(s) (for example, domain.nu and domän.nu).
We will start accepting public registrations for this new service, which will require registration of an English alphabet .NU domain name as well, starting next week (January 10, 2000), on a first-come, first-served basis.
And remember - no other Top Level domain in the world offers this unique service. So we expect public interest - and registration rates - to be very strong once we announce the service.
Although we are not yet offering pre-registration for Asian names (using Japanese, Chinese and other characters) we expect to also support those language sets in the near future. Customers in Japan may want to contact NU Certified Registrar, Kurosawa.net, http://www.nihongo.nu, for more information (email support@kurosawa.net).
If you have any questions about this new service, please contact our support desk at support@mail.nic.nu or email me directly.
Many thanks for your continuing support for .NU domain!
Bill Semich President and Founder NU Domain Ltd http://whats.nu
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Alex Bligh -
bmanning＠vacation.karoshi.com -
Forrest W. Christian -
John M. Brown -
Kai Schlichting