[UA-EAI] [UA-discuss] Why should a company adopt IDN

[Jothan Frakes]

This was a good discussion starter, Ashish.

Domain names and DNS are so powerful and amazing as a technology, and we
all take for granted that they just work.

I use a method of describing the benefits of IDN by taking a high level
position about what domain names are.  I break it down to an analogy
concept of "speed dial". Most everyone has a phone, regardless of their
Internet experience, aptitude or skill level.  Yes this ignores many many
other benefits domains bring, but we mention those after the person arrives
at their moment of enlightenment about the core 'why'.

If we think about the abstract of a domain as a shortcut, that shortcut
more valuable if it is more familiar.

Most humans have challenges remembering phone numbers, and IP addresses are
even more complex.  Humans use speed dial on their phones and keep contacts
so that they don't have to dial all the numbers.  For Internet use, someone
would have challenges to remember an IP address easily for an email, web,
or other address to connect or access stuff.  This was true of IPv4 and is
even more true with IPv6.  Domain names are like speed dial for accessing
and connecting on the Internet.

Domain names make it possible for humans to reach each other and resources
by using something familiar and easy to remember.  Humans have a variety of
languages and alphabets that are familiar to them, and domain names do
too.  IDN unlocks an increased familiarity and affinity for humans.

This is the 'aha' moment that folks typically 'get it'.   I then explain
that domain names do more than "speed dial", that there is load balancing,
content distribution networks, resilience and stability benefits, how DNS
is robust and distributed, etc.

I hope any of this is helpful.  It works well for me with talking about IDN
with a diversity of age, language, and skill levels.

-Jothan



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On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:55 AM Mark Svancarek (CELA) via UA-discuss <
ua-discuss at icann.org> wrote:

> I’d ask your CEO friend which languages and scripts his target demographic
> *prefers*.  In the Russia example below, Cyrillic was greatly preferred.
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> At Microsoft everyone I know speaks and reads English, no matter where on
> Earth they are from, and many of their families back “in the old country”
> are ASCII-capable too.  They have trouble conceiving how unusual they
> actually are; your CEO friend might be having a similar dissonance.  And
> “ASCII-capable” doesn’t mean ASCII-loving; I can read Katakana but if you
> are marketing to me you’d best use ASCII.
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> *From:* UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org> *On Behalf Of *Don
> Hollander
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 9, 2018 03:45
> *To:* 'Ashish Modi' <ashishmodi at xgenplus.com>; ua-discuss at icann.org;
> ua-eai at icann.org
> *Subject:* Re: [UA-discuss] Why should a company adopt IDN
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> In Russia, the IDN’s have been adopted for visual marketing.  They’ve done
> some measurement that suggests it takes just 2 second for someone to
> recognise and remember a Cyrillic domain name, but considerably longer to
> remember an ASCII address.
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> Many companies in Russia started out using their IDNs for this purpose,
> and then redirecting users to their ASCII website.   Since then some have
> started native Cyrillic web sites.
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> Don
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> *From:* UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org> *On Behalf Of *Ashish
> Modi
> *Sent:* Thursday, 9 August 2018 10:10 PM
> *To:* ua-discuss at icann.org; ua-eai at icann.org
> *Subject:* [UA-discuss] Why should a company adopt IDN
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> Dear UASG Team,
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> A CEO of one of the largest Company of India is asking me to give him
> three compelling reason on "Why Should he Adopt IDNs" while it create
> difficulties in marketing, communicating, handling and promoting different
> domains to his clients.
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> I have made probable answers to this, let me know if you wanna add some
> points to it.
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> A) Adopting IDNs will open the door to an extra US$10 Billion Economic
> Activity by capturing the large size of market who doesn`t know English in
> India (which he would not like to miss)
> B) Deliver a better User Experience (UX), resulting in better customer
> satisfaction and retention
> C) Increase in Indian Languages on Internet is the proof that future is
> Vernacular and you need to be UA ready in order to accept communication
> from your clients who are sending emails using IDNs.
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> Look forward for your views on this.
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> Regards,
> Ashish
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