On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 07:02:46PM +0200, Amadeu Abril i Abril (CORE) (amadeu.abril@corenic.org) wrote:
2Tapani: In my experience of managing secnd-level IDns treatng ASCII and the “corresponding” (sic) versions with diacritics as pseudo-variants, whcih range from 19 years for .cat to 11 years for .barcelona, .swiss, .radio, .sport, .eus, .gal, .madrid, .quebec… I have NEVER seen a situation like the one you describe. I am not saying it is not possible: certainly it is. I am just saying it is exrtremely rare, close to something that would only happen as a test by someone interested in ehcking the limits ;-)
I suspect most people still don't know non-ASCII domains are even possible. But that is likely to change, and then such situations are also going to be more likely. And of course some people do like testing the limits. :-) There already are some domains that only differ by diacritics in the 2nd level and belong to different owners and have nothing in common. I expect there to be more such in the future. That said, I concede it's not likely to be a big problem at TLD level in the immediate future, as the number of people who might consider getting a vanity gTLD is going to be pretty small given what they cost. Should the cost drop by three orders of magnitude or so it'd be different, but I guess there'll be time for several new PDPs before that happens. :-) And I guess I must confess to a tendency of treating laws and the like as if they were security-critical computer programs, where all possible loopholes are security risks. Which occasionally does result in picking up too small nits. Apologies if you find it annoying. So, perhaps imposing the same entity rule all the way down is a reasonable compromise between abuse potential and cost. No further objections, let's move on. -- Tapani Tarvainen