Forwarded on Patrik's behalf. Please quote him (not me) as its author in any response, which should also be cc'd to both John and Patrik. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [council] Re: Regarding issues report on IDNs Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:39:24 +0100 From: Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com> To: Sophia B <sophiabekele@gmail.com> CC: John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>, Marilyn Cade <marilynscade@hotmail.com>, Cary Karp <ck@nic.museum>, Tina Dam <dam@icann.org>, GNSO Council <council@gnso.icann.org> On 6 feb 2006, at 08.23, Sophia B wrote:
*Ok, pls correct me if I am wrong when I am trying to speak DNAME implementation approach:* eg. CEO of mybrand.com has to be protected in every language under a gTLD that means "com" in every language, right ? meaning they have to come up with 200 language translations of ".com" and ICANN can approve DNAMES. Then these companies, like Versign, can go and get everyone of their.com name holders (40 million in this case) names translated / transliterated into 200 languages to everyone's satisfaction and register them all to get 200 x 45 million DNAMES.
First of all, you have to differ between the translation of the TLD itself and the translation of the mybrand string. DNAME for .foo (that we say is a translation of .com to some language) refering to .com make it possible to create only mybrand.com and immediately have also mybrand.foo. mybrand.com and mybrand.foo will be the same thing in DNS. bar.mybrand.foo and bar.mybrand.com are also the same thing. If instead you create a new TLD for .foo, then both mybrand.foo and mybrand.com have to be explicitly delegated, with the risk the two domains are owned by different registrants etc. On the other hand, there might be competition between the registry owning .foo and the registry owning .com. Similar comparison can be made inside the domain .com. One can have a DNAME for .fratz as a translation of mybrand so that www.fratz.com is the same as www.fratz.foo which is the same as www.mybrand.foo and www.mybrand.com. So, if one only use DNAME, one will have for N language versions in the TLD and M langauge versions inside the TLD (N-1)+(M-1) DNAME records and 2 delegations (one for com and one for mybrand.com). If one have separate delegations, you will have N*M zones for the permutations of the language versions. All possible to be owned by different registrants. paf