I assume that any RACE domains registered today will be converted to punycode down the road?
-- John Keegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://RackShare.com > From: "James M Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 13:52:35 -0400 > To: "'Amit Rana'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: idn > > Hi Amit, > > Since the introduction of the IDN "testbed" in November 2000, we've > provided RACE conversion scripts into the client > code(opensrs-client-2.xx/cgi/RACE.cgi) which you can use in any > programmatic way you chose. We do not however provide a server side API > call that will do the conversion for you. I caution you from spending > too much time on any RACE related development since Verisign is > converting all IDN names to the punycode standard to meet IDN RFC's > which were published earlier this year, all IDN registrars are expected > to have completed their migration by Feb 2004 and thus moving away from > RACE altogether. > > We will be taking part in this migration later this year and I'll be > letting you all know what impact this has on those resellers with an > interest in IDN names. > > For an interesting read on these new RFC's and how a major browser now > supports them you may find the following article quite interesting > (http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/idn/). I wonder how long > before MS-IE takes (if ever) to support these standards? > > Cheers, > > James > > James M Woods > Product Manager TLD's > Tucows Inc. > 416-538-5453 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Amit Rana > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: idn > > > Hi, > > What is the suggested way of converting multi-lingual (or > non-english) domains to race-encoded strings? > > Does TuCows provide and api for the same or we are expected to > do the conversion ourselves or are we expected to use > http://www.opensrs.org/cgi-bin/RACE/index.cgi > > Please feel free to fwd me to any documentation which might > answer this. > > Regards, > Amit. > >
