Stupid question

Coastalguy · 09-20-2003, 06:34 AM

Why can't domain names use characters like: !,@,#,$,%,&.

Wouldn't it be great!

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

etc, etc.

ST

Tippy · 09-20-2003, 07:11 AM

& and $ would be Cool.

Mike

Coastalguy · 09-20-2003, 05:18 PM

Any answer to "why"?

ST

Wanda · 09-20-2003, 05:23 PM

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

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scite...ual010418.html

Coastalguy · 09-20-2003, 06:05 PM

Wanda: Awesome article. Appreciate the effort in digging that up for all NP'ers to read.

Thanks,
ST

Waldo · 09-20-2003, 06:12 PM

It would be neat if those symbols could be incorporated into urls.

Coastalguy · 09-20-2003, 06:28 PM

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.

ST

wicked_gal00 · 09-20-2003, 06:51 PM

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

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