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 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.