ICANN's meeting in UAE to discuss Arabic domain names

[Gee]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Sounds to me they are prepared to talk about anything as long as nobody mentions IDN.IDN

after people have been educated about parking pages and ppc , when they visit a parked page by accident most people feel scared like hell to click on sponsored links so they don't send domain owners a free dollars lunch

any little IDN.IDN mentioning will send all IDNers right away a free lobster meal and a week at hawaii beaches

[Gee]

Originally Posted by Fka200

Agreed. The hyphen works fine. Why mess with it.

hyphen talking is much easier than any discussion of IDN.IDN

[Fka200]

Originally Posted by Gee

hyphen talking is much easier than any discussion of IDN.IDN

LOL Let us not start with IDN.IDN. I already have a headache !

[zorglub]

Originally Posted by Gee

"ـ"
the second is arabic hyphen which is normally used to extend the letters with exception of some letters
although arabic hyphen may not be easily recognised for the first look at the name ... it will not lead to typo mistakes

First time is see this one. Is it on the keyboards ? Did somebody reg any with it ? I just regged one to see if there's so type-in.

Originally Posted by Gee

Cybersquatting will remain more hazardous problem than phishing

Agree, I was wrong to talk about phishing as I was more thinking about the fact that a 2 words domain could have up to 5 possibilities :
- the "invisible caracter", let's call it space, because if people see a space between the words in the domain, to get back to the website they'll use "space" on the keyboard. (best domain)
- hyphen (second best domain or best domain)
- arabic hyphen (don't know)
- "۔" : if you didn't know it Gee, it means to me it's not used at all by natives so these would be bad quality domains 'cause you can't even get back to the website with the adress bar (unless you ctrl+c/ctrl+d but...)
- no separator for some of them only, like Casablanca

Now there's not a lot a developped IDNs ; so how would any of these qualify as "official" and others "cybersquatters" ? Basing decision on the separator ? domain creation date ? website developped date ?

Originally Posted by Gee

at the end , I think nothing will be changed

Very possible... but I hope not, this would lead to constant conflicts and weak market don't you think ? It's really not in the interest of no one I guess. But yeah laziness would win...

If not, if done properly, there will be just 1 possibility, and if .com is aliased which owner will be qualified to have it... ?

That's a lot of questions for a lot of good 2 words available domains

[Drewbert]

They'd already announced that they were happy with the ASCII hyphen, so now they're going to change their minds?

Anyone manage to find if they constructed a local website or page for this meeting anywhere?

[Drewbert]

"ICANN had incredibly productive discussions at its recent meeting in India"

Huh? Was there actual progress made somewhere that I missed?