[UA-EAI] A request concerning entering domain names

[Tan Tanaka, Dennis]

Hi Arnt,

Anecdotally, I’ve heard similar issues with Armenian. For Cyrillic, the dot does not appear to be an issue, but the “@” character is for email addresses. A survey to the UA-discuss list might get you more responses.

Best,
Dennis

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Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 10:21 AM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [UA-EAI] A request concerning entering domain names


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Hi,

When I enter a domain name such as icann.org, I just press nine keys in sequence, i, c and so on. Five keys for icann, then one for the dot, then three for org.

When a Chinese user enters a Chinese domain in a similarly simple way, the result may be 星巴克。商标, while the correct result would be 星巴克.商标 (note the different dots). Entering the correct domain requires entering 星巴克, changing keyboard layout to get latin letters, entering the ASCII dot, changing keyboard layout back, then entering 商标. Bothersome. You will not be surprised to learn that forgetting to switch layout is a common mistake.

I’d like to know which other locales have a similar problem, and for that I want to ask a favour.

There are many people here who use different keyboard input methods. If your keyboard input method has a similar problem, can you send me the dot and an example domain (which does not need to exist, something like example.yourtld would do)? Offlist please. That is to arnt.gulbrandsen at icann.org.

If a keyboard method uses non-latin letters but includes the ASCII full stop, I’m interested in that too. Always heartening to know when something is not buggy.

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Arnt Gulbrandsen
UA Technology Sr. Manager, ICANN
+32 492 374706
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