[Patents] Multilingual domain names blocked by patents

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr> (Bernard Lang)]

I do not know whether this information was already posted.

I got it from the registrar Gandi (cheapest ... and supporter of free
software  ... and overall nice guys)

http://www.gandi.net/news.html.en

Multilingual domain names : Multilingual domain names are domain names
in .COM .NET and .ORG having accented caracters that is using another
character set than the 26 letters from the English alphabet. These
domain names are already available for registration through some
Registrars. However standards for this major change on Internet (which
will need updating many software) are not yet finished and their
completion might not be very close since some patents have been shown
lately [13] on algorithms used to convert these domain names (please
see http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0326patent.html).


Bernard

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