Chinese, Traditional - Big5
Korean - KSC5601
Japanese - SJIS
The
following languages will be added later:
Spanish - ISO8859-1 (Latin1)
Portuguese - ISO8859-1 (Latin1)
Arabic - ISO8859-6 (Arabic)
Is
the certification specific to a particular
language?
Yes.
Registrars must be certified for each language
(encoding type) in which they intend to register
domain names.
Are
separate registrations necessary for registering a
domain name in multiple languages?
Yes.
Each language has a unique encoding type,
resulting in a unique ASCII string, and therefore
a unique domain name. Each language requires a
unique registration. For example, you would need
to register a Traditional Chinese (Big5) domain
name separately from a domain name in Simplified
Chinese (GB2312).
How
will non-English domain names appear on the
Internet?
All
non-English domain names registered during the
test-bed period will be second level domain names
within .com, .org, and .net. For example, a
Chinese domain name may appear as .com. (internationalizeddomainnames.com)
Will
multilingual name servers be supported?
Yes,
NSI Registry will support native character set
name servers.
Can
several domain names share the same IP address?
Yes.
This is no different from the current capability
for domain names to share IP addresses.
Can
a non-English domain name be transferred to a
registrar that is not certified in that language?
No.
For a registrar to initiate a transfer of a domain
name, that registrar must be certified by the
Registry in the language of the domain name they
intend to transfer.
How
will the NSI Registry handle trademark issues with
regard to international domain names? For example,
if a domain name is translated into English and
the English version is already registered, how
will the Registry respond?
The
NSI Registry registers domains on a first-come,
first-serve basis, and relies on ICANN's Uniform
Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) for
dispute resolution. If ICANN modifies the UDRP to
reflect specific attributes of multilingual domain
names, NSI Registry will abide by such decisions.
WHOIS
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How will the multilingual domain name appear in
WHOIS?
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Besides the domain name, will the rest of the
domain/name server record be recorded in ASCII
in WHOIS and the Registry database?
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Will the NSI Registry WHOIS accept queries using
the native character set of the multilingual
domain name?
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How can someone find out if a domain name has
been registered in multiple languages?
How will the multilingual domain name appear in
WHOIS?
In
WHOIS, the multilingual domain name will appear as
it is stored in the NSI Registry database (not in
the native character set). Here is an example: ra--gde6djht.com.
As the protocol evolves, the beginning of the
string (ra--) is likely to change.
Besides the domain name, will the rest of the
domain/name server record be recorded in ASCII in
WHOIS and the Registry database?
Yes.
The domain name, registrar name, WHOIS server,
referral URL, name server record, and updated date
will be recorded using the same standard character
set in effect today.
Will
the NSI Registry WHOIS accept queries using the
native character set of the multilingual domain
name?
No.
The NSI Registry does not convert non-English
character set into Row-based ASCII-Compatible
Encoding (RACE). The RACE representation (and not
the native character set) must be sent to the
Registry WHOIS.
How can someone find out if a domain name has been
registered in multiple languages?
Domain names are unique registrations for each
language. For each language in which a user
requests registration information, they will
initiate a WHOIS query for the domain name in the
ASCII character string for the domain name in each
of the native languages.
