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Reply To: What do you think of these Japan Gambling domains?

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yaelu
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Spearmaster wrote:
We shall see – they (meaning IDNs) are worthless today. They may not be worthless tomorrow but ultimately the determining factor will be market adoption of IDN names, plus what additional value a search engine places on the domain name IF it can read it without having to resort to punycode (if it does work, I think this could only be an advantage).

Google Japan resolves to the Domain not punycode

Yahoo Japan resolves to the domain
For the term ゲームオンラインショップ Game Online Shop my pcゲーム.jp
http://search.yahoo.co.jp/search?p=%A5%B2%A1%BC%A5%E0%A5%AA%A5%F3%A5%E9%A5%A4%A5%F3%A5%B7%A5%E7%A5%C3%A5%D7&x=0&y=0&fr=top_v2&tid=top_v2&ei=euc-jp&search.x=1

Goo.ne.jp resolves to the domain (Even released a press release this year announcing it)
http://eva045.goo.ne.jp/changes/index.html
You can see on the bottom of Goo’s search service it say’s it’s IDN Friendly (日本語ドメイン)

Spearmaster wrote:
In Japan, for example, you would know that there are numerous input methods for numerous character sets (kanji, hiragana, katakana). In order to enter an IDN URL in the address bar, it would require at least two input methods, which quite frankly is very irritating.

Spearmaster I work & email friends in Japanese all the time. I’m American & can type a Japanese email on a cell phone faster than I can in English. Do you actually type Japanese?(Not being sarcastic) Look at any Japanese Blog & see how often they “don’t” type correct Japanese because it’s irritating. Japanese comes first for Japanese people. You don’t even need to change the characterset at all to type in a dot jp. I can type in ビンゴ.jp & it will resolve. I didn’t change the character set.

As far as the browser support. Like I said IE7 works without resolving to punycode & will be IDN friendly. It comes out this month.

If it still makes it worthless today to you. Hey I respect you for having that opinion.

As far as the security issues can you post a current URL of the weakness of an IDN domain for a site? Something that especially refers to Asian domains?

Preferably something that states problems & not just “we are concerned that maybe”. You’d be really surprised what people who didn’t look at this from the average Japanese person’s standpoint would say is a problem. I’ve heard a lot that didn’t make sense over the past year.