Unicode for domain names

Cricket Liu cricket at VeriSign.com
Fri Mar 23 03:40:38 UTC 2001


> I know this is old news, but does the following mean we can have
underscore in
> labels please:
>
> "From April 5, Network Solutions will accept all characters represented by
the
> Unicode standard for domain names"

No, and it doesn't mean you can use any Unicode character in
a domain name, either.  I'm almost sure that misleading quote is referring
to Network Solutions allowing registration of the ACE (in particular,
RACE) encoding of any Unicode code points starting soon.

cricket



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