[UA-discuss] [UA-International] IDN-as-punycode-encoded-label in Baidu search engine results

[Jin Wang]

Hi Gentelmen,

I reckoned the term Dennis used is an IDN.com but all the BAIDU results
just took the Chinese key words (the parts that were high-lighted in
red)--- it barely has anything to do with domain name. It is really hard to
come to the conclusion that BAIDU is supporting IDNs in their search engine.

At present, Baidu is the leading search engine in China but there are still
a handful companies providing similar services in China. Therefore, instead
of having one or two experts talking to the companies one by one, I suggest
we'd better make a combined effort to talk to a group of companies - search
engines, mailbox service provider, input methods (for Chinese pinyin), and
also some of the smartphone manufacturers. As most of them are competing
locally rather than globally, it might works better to start within China,
especially when some of the world's biggest player is in absence in China.

I can voluntarily embark on finding out a viable communication channel so
that we can have a dialog mechanism in the future.

Best Regards,
Jin



On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Jiankang Yao <yaojk at cnnic.cn> wrote:

>
> I can help to talk to baidu and forward your message to them.
>
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> Jiankang Yao
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> *From:* Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka at verisign.com>
> *Date:* 2015-11-24 05:45
> *To:* UA-discuss at icann.org
> *CC:* ua-international at icann.org
> *Subject:* [UA-International] IDN-as-punycode-encoded-label in Baidu
> search engine results
>
> Often times I hear that IDNs are not indexed by certain search engines.
> While I know this is not true, the example below doesn’t help my case
> either (at least not 100%). Here is an example where the IDN I’m looking
> for is showing up in the first 5 search results on Baidu (see picture
> below). However, the string is displayed as the punycode-encoded label
> instead of the corresponding Chinese IDN (i.e. xn--ebr05n.com) .
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> Google and Yandex appear to work as expected. Bing didn’t display the
> domain name in the results (first two pages).
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> Is there someone interested (and with the language skills) in taking the
> action item to reach out to Baidu? This might be in the form of opening a
> bug ticket to explain the problem (IDN is displayed as punycode-encoded
> label. Example: xn--ebr05.com) and what the expected result should have
> been (IDN displayed as Chinese domain nam. Example: 墨刀.com).
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> [image: Verisign]
>
> *Dennis Tan *
> Sr. Product Manager
>
> Naming Services
>
> DTanTanaka at Verisign.com
>
>
> m: 571-246-7303 t: 703-948-4197
> 12061 Bluemont Way, Reston, VA 20190
>
> VerisignInc.com <http://www.verisigninc.com/>
>
> [image: Verisign™]
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