[UA-discuss] [UA-International] icann IDNs

[Andre Schappo]

Ah! An answer I was not expecting😄  Interesting! When you have some info online it would be good if you post links.

So will ICANN ever have any IDNs that resolve to icann.org web server? Or in other words, behave as regular website domain names.

André Schappo

On 21 Jun 2015, at 14:31, David Conrad wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for not commenting on this thread earlier -- due to a bit of
> overload, I haven't been following discussions closely.
> 
> No, they aren't defensive registrations.
> 
> ICANN is using those domain names as part of a series of experiments,
> which makes use of an incredibly useful testing infrastructure built and
> utilized by APNIC, that will verify the ability to look up a domain name
> from millions of browsers all over the planet. A high-level description of
> the experiments would be that the APNIC infrastructure uses Google
> advertisements to run a bit of flash code that does a lookup for a unique
> domain name within one of the icann.* domains. Over time, millions of
> these experiments will be run, which should give us a baseline of how many
> of the new gTLDs are blocked from resolution from an end user's
> perspective. We plan on running the test periodically to see if things are
> getting better/worse over time.
> 
> As such, the registrations aren't integrated into websites in a way that
> anyone would normally see.
> 
> Happy to answer questions on this if anyone is curious.
> 
> Regards,
> -drc
> ICANN CTO
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of Andre Schappo
> <A.Schappo at lboro.ac.uk>
> Date: Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 5:31 AM
> To: "ua-international at icann.org" <ua-international at icann.org>
> Cc: "UA-discuss at icann.org" <UA-discuss at icann.org>
> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] [UA-International] icann IDNs
> 
>> 
>> Here is an updated list of New gTLD IDNs registered by icann. I will test
>> the other New gTLD IDNs when I have time.
>> 
>> icann.在线
>> icann.中文网
>> icann.みんな
>> icann.移动
>> icann.我爱你 which is may favourite as it means - icann. I Love You 😂
>> 
>> I assume that these are not just defensive registrations.
>> 
>> I consider it crucial that when these IDNs are implemented they are
>> properly integrated into the icann website. So this excludes redirecting
>> to the ascii icann.org and excludes frame redirects. The IDN should show
>> in the address bar and follow the pathname navigation. If icann have used
>> relative url addressing in their site then this should not be a problem.
>> 
>> And … in the longer term the pathname part should be in the current
>> language. Using aliasing/links this is not difficult to implement. More
>> explanation another time.
>> 
>> André Schappo
>>