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Old 09-20-2003, 06:34 AM THREAD STARTER               #1 (permalink)
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Why can't domain names use characters like: !,@,#,$,%,&.

Wouldn't it be great!

B&B.com
Rock&Roll.com
Free$.com

etc, etc.

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& and $ would be Cool.

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Any answer to "why"?

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Here's an article you may find interesting.. about "foreign character domains"

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scite...ual010418.html
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Wanda: Awesome article. Appreciate the effort in digging that up for all NP'ers to read.

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It would be neat if those symbols could be incorporated into urls.
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Agreed. There is downloadable software out there that allows your keyboard to type in various languages (ie" Chinese, Japanese, Korean). I guess that would only be a benefit if...

1. These characters were allowed
2. You understood the language

Interesting, nonetheless.

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That's an interesting idea, but really narrows the market.
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