Latin IDN coming to Canada ( .ca ) in January

[Idnik]

Hi everyone,

FYI IDNs are coming to Canada next January : http://cira.ca/legal/idnconsultation.ca

 

[grcorp]

 

[katherine]

Don't think they will make a huge splash.

 

[hugegrowth]

I think they will be great for French speakers, it is correct spelling after all. I plan on regging some of my French .ca with correct accents to see how they do.

 

[Idnik]

Same thing for me. I wish I had universite.ca, ete.ca, beaute.ca or gaspesie.ca

 

[DomainsInc]

if only those who already own the .ca's without the accents can register the accent version i guess it doesn't offer much opportunity.

 

[Gerry]

Um...it is French that is enroute, not Latin.

CIRA currently only offers .CA domain names in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), otherwise known as non-accented Latin-based script (a-z). However, CIRA will be implementing French Interntionalized Domain Names (IDNs) at the second level (to the left of the dot).

 

[hugegrowth]

if only those who already own the .ca's without the accents can register the accent version i guess it doesn't offer much opportunity.

That is how it will work. For example I own obesite.ca, so I'll have the rights to all accented versions (which includes the correct one). I'll have to register it and it will create a second domain. Cost will be the same as a regular .ca. Looking forward to doing this and experimenting.