According to today's NetzwocheTicker and http://www.switch.ch/about/news.html?id=112 :
"At the request of the internet community in Switzerland, SWITCH is adding the letter "œ" to the range of characters permitted in domain names ending in .ch and .li."
Interesting, because as mentioned in the news itself, "œ cannot be typed in directly, since it is not even available on French keyboards" (cf. http://www.ibt.ca/images/AZERTY_1.jpg). And it's also not on our swiss-french/german keyboards. So *who* will use that? :) (ok, it's also the case for many of the others chars listed under https://nic.switch.ch/reg/staticHtmlView.action?site=faqs/idn&navKey=inf... )
Just wondering: who from the "internet community" asked for that? I guess this person is probably be around on Swinog list, so he/she could explain us ... :-) And what if the "internet community" were asking for cheaper .ch/.li domains (for example for Fr. 10.-/year) or to remove the "minimum length three characters" limitation? :)
regards & have a nice snowy week-end! Olivier
Hi,
Olivier Mueller a écrit :
Just wondering: who from the "internet community" asked for that? I guess this person is probably be around on Swinog list, so he/she could explain us ... :-) And what if the "internet community" were asking for cheaper .ch/.li domains (for example for Fr. 10.-/year) or to remove the "minimum length three characters" limitation? :)
Hmmm, not the good day to say this ... The ICANN will probably sign the agreement with Verisign in a few days, so dotNet and dotCom will just cost the double in 10 years (7% per year, i'll let you verify ...). $12, ok we're far from the CHF 35,- asked by Switch but dotCh will probably become a good choice in a few years. If interested, you can send a comment to ICANN about this agreement at settlement-comments *AT* icann.org . Feel free to do so.
Good luck if you're on the road today ! Julien Escario
Hmmm, not the good day to say this ... The ICANN will probably sign the agreement with Verisign in a few days, so dotNet and dotCom will just cost the double in 10 years (7% per year, i'll let you verify ...). $12, ok we're far from the CHF 35,- asked by Switch but dotCh will probably become a good choice in a few years.
I feel that domain names are totally overrated, and they will become less and less relevant as time goes on. I used to try to guess domain names of companies I wanted to contact. Now, I just enter a search - much faster, and much more accurate.
Sitch accept the "oe" Symbol. What is with the American DNS Servers? I think many of the US DNS couldn't handle ä, ö ü and "oe"? Will this be fixed in the nexts years... Or is this only a mareting Joke of the Switch...
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch]Im Auftrag von Mickey Coggins Gesendet: Freitag, 25. November 2005 14:42 An: swinog@swinog.ch Betreff: Re: [swinog] "oe" & Switch.ch
Hmmm, not the good day to say this ... The ICANN will probably sign the agreement with Verisign in a few days, so dotNet and dotCom will just cost the double in 10 years (7% per year, i'll let you verify ...). $12, ok we're far from the CHF 35,- asked by Switch but dotCh will probably become a good choice in a few years.
I feel that domain names are totally overrated, and they will become less and less relevant as time goes on. I used to try to guess domain names of companies I wanted to contact. Now, I just enter a search - much faster, and much more accurate.
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Salut,
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 04:06:08PM +0100, Xaver Aerni wrote:
Sitch accept the "oe" Symbol. What is with the American DNS Servers? I think many of the US DNS couldn't handle ä, ö ü and "oe"? Will this be fixed in the nexts years... Or is this only a mareting Joke of the Switch...
RFC3492 please
Tonnerre
Hello!
Am 25.11.05 schrieb Xaver Aerni:
Sitch accept the "oe" Symbol. What is with the American DNS Servers? I think many of the US DNS couldn't handle ä, ö ü and "oe"?
To put umlouds in the DNS-Servers, you don't need any changes at the DNS protocoll or the servers itself. Everything is handled in the application like the browser.
See [1] as an example.
[1] http://%C3%BCbel.lugs.ch/ [2] http://xn--bel-goa.lugs.ch/
You will notice that a modern Mozilla / Firefox / Opera converts the entered umloud automatically to the "punycode". You will also notice that IE is not able to handle this URL.
I don't understand Switch, why the still try to earn money with such a useless thing...
Gruss Beat
On Friday, 25 Nov 2005 16:23 +0100, Beat Rubischon wrote:
Sitch accept the "oe" Symbol. What is with the American DNS Servers? I think many of the US DNS couldn't handle ä, ö ü and "oe"?
To put umlouds in the DNS-Servers, you don't need any changes at the DNS protocoll or the servers itself. Everything is handled in the application like the browser.
See [1] as an example.
[1] http://%C3%BCbel.lugs.ch/ [2] http://xn--bel-goa.lugs.ch/
You will notice that a modern Mozilla / Firefox / Opera converts the entered umloud automatically to the "punycode". You will also notice that IE is not able to handle this URL.
There is a third party plugin for IE available. IE 7 will support Umlauts.
Ihsan
Xaver Aerni schrieb:
Sitch accept the "oe" Symbol. What is with the American DNS Servers? I think many of the US DNS couldn't handle ä, ö ü and "oe"? Will this be fixed in the nexts years... Or is this only a mareting Joke of the Switch...
Maaaaaaaaaan, Xari. Ever heard of Punycode? Find a converter here: http://%C3%BCbel.lugs.ch/ or http://xn--bel-goa.lugs.ch/
CU, Venty
* on the Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:15:06PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote:
http://www.switch.ch/about/news.html?id=112 :
"At the request of the internet community in Switzerland, SWITCH is adding the letter "?" to the range of characters permitted in domain names ending in .ch and .li."
This appears as "?" Did you mess up, or does iso.8859-15 not support "\u0153" (here written as unicode-representation in octal).
Cheers Seegras
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