Comments on: The Traveler

By: Fred Mackey

Fred Mackey — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:32:38 +0000

Found a coupon code for Name Cheap at http://www.namecheappromo.com

By: Julius Davies

Julius Davies — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:25:45 +0000

I wonder what people are supposed to put in the SSL certificate?

CN=xn--t8jc5b1c114xnw7a.com

CN=お元気ですか.com

???

By: Allison Davis

Allison Davis — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:57:46 +0000

Love the international domains, might have to pick one up so we can have our own shortening service for the site!

By: Josh Jones

Josh Jones — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:37:29 +0000

Hey Benerhos,

Not me! Though I will kick anybody’s ass at any version of bomberman, anytime, anywhere… and I did make that super bomberman 4 website a lonnnnnnnng time ago! But only as a fan.

And yeah, we’ll have to consider .co.uk.. but then we’re going to have to do like ALL of them. And make SOOOO much money. Sigh.

And mahtomayto, .com and .net are fine, it’s .org and .info who will reject your domain if it’s got characters in languages other than the 10 they support! I guess what nick is saying is that maybe .org and .info don’t support french because its special characters look too much like english? A la waçhovia.org? I’m not 100% convinced that’s the reason, since they don’t allow Chinese or Japanese words either and those aren’t too likely to be used for phishing (at least not for english-speakers)…!

By: Jeevan

Jeevan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:02:47 +0000

More great news. Ill be on the lookout for guys in panda suit.

By: cstein

cstein — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:23:07 +0000

soooooo, who’s your panda friend?

By: mahtomayto

mahtomayto — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:39:41 +0000

I don’t understand the problem. Browsers will translate non-ASCII domain names to punycode, they just don’t always show the special characters in the address bar to prevent phishing. (Firefox has a blacklist/whitelist filter: network.IDN.* prefs in about:config.) Maybe there’s an input filter too, but that’s just a browser issue.

Are you saying that registries reject any punycoded domain name if it “isn’t a word” in those ten languages or contains other characters? Apparently that’s not the case, because your example お元気ですか.com has been successfully registered at Dreamhost.

By: Donk

Donk — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:40:28 +0000

Benerhos,

A little googling brings up this Bomberman webpage by a Josh Jones:

http://www.newdream.net/sb4/

Who happens to host on w/ DreamHost:

http://www.newdream.net/

So I think you found the guy you’re looking for ;)

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:55:57 +0000

Again, real international domains. Not being able to register co.uk domains at Dreamhost sends wads of my cash to other companies. I’d transfer them all to Dreamhost if I had the option and I’m sure I’m not alone, think of that extra revenue stream in these hard times… Are you guys running a business ; )

By: Nick Lamb

Nick Lamb — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:51:08 +0000

Because the COM registry is so poorly run by Verisign you can register any IDN name in it, even confusing names useful only to criminals for phishing and so on. So major vendors like Mozilla ignore these IDNs (you see xn-example.com instead) for display purposes to protect users.

Whereas TLDs like ORG have policies in place to ensure IDNs aren’t used to create deliberately confusing names, so your choices are more restricted, but vendors like Mozilla will honour these IDNs for display purposes, you will see the IDN in the URL bar.

Yes, Verisign are the same people whose “certificate authority” doesn’t actually certify anything except that you paid them money.