Rubber Duck
25th January 2006, 10:01 AM
I have inadvertantly stumbled across conclusive proof of the IDN concept.
A couple of days ago I registered this as part of a suggestive sweep of Wordstats at Yandex.
xn--c1akhxjc.net услуги the service
Must have like it as it only scored 282620, which is actually pretty low compared with the rest of my registrations.
Put this one into a thread because of very substantial traffic particulary for Dot Net.
It was pointed out to me that this was probably a "Typo" of uslugi.net, which appears to be popular Ukrainian site.
Of course what we actually have here is a Transliteration. That means someone, indeed an awful lot of someones have tried to type this into address bar of an IDN enabled browser, but using a Cyrillic Keyboard, rather than a standard English Keyboard.
It is not difficult to see that I have a potential WIPO on my hands, as I will soon be getting more traffic than they are.
The concept of IDN is proven conclusively by this. Given a Cyrilic Keyboard and an enabled browser, Russians and Ukrainians will attempt to type in the IDN address, even if the site owner has not advertised or registered. God help any Company trying to do E-Commerce in Asia that has not taken this message on board!!!
Dave
A couple of days ago I registered this as part of a suggestive sweep of Wordstats at Yandex.
xn--c1akhxjc.net услуги the service
Must have like it as it only scored 282620, which is actually pretty low compared with the rest of my registrations.
Put this one into a thread because of very substantial traffic particulary for Dot Net.
It was pointed out to me that this was probably a "Typo" of uslugi.net, which appears to be popular Ukrainian site.
Of course what we actually have here is a Transliteration. That means someone, indeed an awful lot of someones have tried to type this into address bar of an IDN enabled browser, but using a Cyrillic Keyboard, rather than a standard English Keyboard.
It is not difficult to see that I have a potential WIPO on my hands, as I will soon be getting more traffic than they are.
The concept of IDN is proven conclusively by this. Given a Cyrilic Keyboard and an enabled browser, Russians and Ukrainians will attempt to type in the IDN address, even if the site owner has not advertised or registered. God help any Company trying to do E-Commerce in Asia that has not taken this message on board!!!
Dave