wifi4milez
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Re: Non-Roman alphabet domain names side effect
said by GOLFnSUN  :said by voipdabbler :ICANN--opening up even more opportunities for online fraud. Personally, I think they've opened up an unmanageable can of worms. I do agree that there will be lawsuits with respect to domains with intellectual property connotations. And I wouldn't hold my breath expecting porn sites to voluntarily choose domains connoting sex--they know that it will be too easy to filter those names. Also part of this decision is the use of non-Roman alphabet characters in domain suffixes. This is very democratic, but it will inevitably lead to a segmentation of the monolithic internet in to regions and languages. Aside from the censorship by China with their "Great Firewall" and in some other countries with national firewalls as well, this decision will actually foster the breakdown of international access to the internet as a whole. You are correct. China could purchase the {insert Chinese character} domain, and then limit all internal (ie. people in China) users to just that domain. They will then be able to very tightly control what people are doing, as their "firewall" would simply prohibit traffic going to any other domain.
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DataDoc
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| said by wifi4milez :China could purchase the {insert Chinese character} domain, and then limit all internal (ie. people in China) users to just that domain. They will then be able to very tightly control what people are doing, as their "firewall" would simply prohibit traffic going to any other domain. Can't this simply be done with IPs now? |
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patcat88
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said by wifi4milez :You are correct. China could purchase the {insert Chinese character} domain, and then limit all internal (ie. people in China) users to just that domain. They will then be able to very tightly control what people are doing, as their "firewall" would simply prohibit traffic going to any other domain. Yep, if you don't know the language and don't have a properly configured computer, its impossible to access those domains now. Think of the possibilities if you mix cyrillic сhаrасtеrѕ wіth lаtіn сhаrасtеrѕ. |
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