Exclusive: Q&A with Chuck Gomes of Verisign
IDNBlog had the chance to catch up with Chuck Gomes, and to ask the billion dollar question regarding aliasing. As background, Chuck has been a part of the VeriSign/Network Solutions’ management team since 1984. Since October 1999, Mr. Gomes served as Vice President of Policy and Compliance for VeriSign Information Services (VIS), the VeriSign division that contains the VeriSign Com Net Registry, the Registry for all second-level domain names in the .com and .net top-level Internet domains. He is VIS’s primary point of contact with ICANN.
IDNBlog: Please clarify your comments [referenced comments here: link] with regards to aliasing. If I own an IDN.com, can I expect to own IDN.IDN in several languages? If so, how will this aliasing process work?
Chuck Gomes: The process planned by VeriSign does not involve aliasing although the result might look like aliasing. Under the approach we are planning, if you are the registrant of Krawitz.com, no one else could register Krawitz.com-in-IDN; you could activate the registration of Krawitz.com-in-IDN if you wanted to. That would apply to any IDN versions of .com that we offer. Similarly, if you were the registrant of Krawitz-in-IDN.com, then no one else could register Krawitz-in-IDN.com-in-IDN but you could activate the registration it if you wanted to.
***UPDATE: We asked Chuck one bonus question:
IB: One follow-up question, roughly when do you expect the process outlined [above] to begin?
CG: When any IDN gTLDs we apply for are entered into the root. No one knows when the new gTLD process will start but estimates by ICANN Sfaff are that the process could take anywhere from 8 to 19 months after the process starts.
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So Aliasing will be left to the Registrant by 301 redirect or otherwise, but he will have to pay for each mirror. What is not stated is that you can register the variants of dot Com without registering the dot com, which suggests that ASCII version is effectively the Master Registry.
Does anyone need to spell it out that those waiting for Real IDN have waited in vain?
“he will have to pay for each mirror.” Even if so, this is not too shabby
so we have to pay to “unleash” the variants?
@Jeff- That looks likely.
lame we already pay them enough….
the “beta” test gave them millions in idn fee regs since 2000
I just have one question regarding IDNs. What are those rectangle boxes I see when someone tries to sell one? Is that a language?
@Faceless Businessman – If you see a bunch of boxes, it is probably someone trying to sell you a symbol domain which is usually worthless but is technically an IDN.
There are a number of other things it could also be, as sometimes boxes or ???? are displayed instead of an IDN when a site is not UTF-8 compliant, and therefore a site may not be able to display foreign characters.
I think you need to add the language you see as boxes to see it properly. How will you know which language is it since you see boxes? no idea, but i am sure someone on IDNForums knows.
@IDNBlog I know just a joke.
This was one of the most used excuses a few years back as to why a domainer wouldn’t invest in IDN. They just didn’t have the language configured right in their browser and the domains would come up rectangle boxes.
Cheers
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