[arabic-vip] WHOIS related query

[Baher Esmat]

On 8/16/11 9:15 PM, "Steve Sheng" <steve.sheng at icann.org> wrote:

> Another question is a stupid question from me, how many variants could an
> Arabic label have? Is it in the order of 10s, 100s or 1000s we are talking
> about? This have obvious implications for WHOIS output and registry WHOIS
> services.  

If my memory serves me right, Raed Al-Fayez of (.sa), also a member of the
Arabic team, mentioned in a presentation at the ICANN meeting in Singapore
that there were cases of variants ­ as per (.sa) policy ­ where the number
of variants per a single label could be as many as ~64,000.

Baher