Evgeni,
If you mean --take a multilingual word (be it UTF-8 or Shift-JIS or Hangul
etc.) and convert it to RACE yourself and then try and register that domain
(e.g bq--f5ghj.com) as a regular .com then yes there is a big
difference...don't do it... the name will not be part of the MLtestbed, wont
be loaded into the mlcom.net test base and may only resolve as bq--f5ghj.com
and not your intended representation.
>From a registrar standpoint (at least last time I checked, Kenny correct me
if I'm wrong) Multilingual Domains are registered through a different RRP
proxy then regular .com net and org.'s this is why it is not safe to just
convert it yourself and register it as English, VeriSign wont recognize it
as a ML name.
I hope this helps!
Cheers,
James
James M Woods
Chief Operation Officer
Basic Fusion Inc.
www.basicfusion.com
p.905.426.5940
c.416.889.7977
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Joy
Sent: April 25, 2001 3:41 PM
To: Evgeni Gechev; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: difference between registering UTF-8 and RACE encoded domain
name
Verisign is not necessarily treating the ASCII encoded standard english
registration approach with the same...hmm...value?...as the other domains.
For example, once this initiative gained some momentum a while back, many
RSPs did exactly that....converted ML names to their RACE names
(bq--blah.com) and then registered that in standard english. Verisign saw
this as a kind of cybersquatting, and gave the names a different status than
those registered 'correctly' .
However, this is not to say that it won't work and you shouldn't do it; this
is simply my current understanding of things (being reasonable new to my
role managing this project). I'll look into it, and get an official answer
from Verisign.
Thanks,
Ken
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Evgeni Gechev
> Sent: April 25, 2001 3:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: difference between registering UTF-8 and RACE encoded domain name
>
>
> Hi!
> Can somebody explain is there any difference between registering a
> multilingual domain in UTF-8 encoding and registering it's RACE encoded
> equivalent in "Standard English"?
>
> Regards,
> Evgeni Gechev
> http://www.setcom.bg/
>
