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Hi all,
I noticed that internationalized domains are available for .JP
I'm interested in this but not sure how it works. If I register an IDN for .JP, will I then have registered the domain name in Japanese or only the "punycode" equivalent of it?
Concrete example, let's say I want to register the Japanese equivalent of "coffeemachines.jp". For the sake of the example, I google translated "coffee machines" which is "コーヒーマシン". Now I would want to register "コーヒーマシン.jp".
According to the convertor at IP Mirror, ipmirror.com/en/help/idn_convertor/, "コーヒーマシン.jp" has the following punycode equivalent:
xn--tcki4f2b5f2bb.jp
When I now try to register コーヒーマシン.jp through IP Mirror, IP Mirror would in fact register xn--tcki4f2b5f2bb.jp for me.
However, a person putting the Japanese address in his browser "コーヒーマシン.jp" would also end up on my domain, right?
Does that mean that in fact I also "own" コーヒーマシン.jp when registering xn--tcki4f2b5f2bb.jp ?
Or would there be a risk that the JP registry at some point would start making available "UTF-8" (with that I mean registering directly a name with Japanese signs instead of the Punycode equivalent) domains so that "コーヒーマシン.jp" could be registered by someone else?
And does it work the same with IDN for all Asian countries or may there be differences?
Thanks in advance!
I noticed that internationalized domains are available for .JP
I'm interested in this but not sure how it works. If I register an IDN for .JP, will I then have registered the domain name in Japanese or only the "punycode" equivalent of it?
Concrete example, let's say I want to register the Japanese equivalent of "coffeemachines.jp". For the sake of the example, I google translated "coffee machines" which is "コーヒーマシン". Now I would want to register "コーヒーマシン.jp".
According to the convertor at IP Mirror, ipmirror.com/en/help/idn_convertor/, "コーヒーマシン.jp" has the following punycode equivalent:
xn--tcki4f2b5f2bb.jp
When I now try to register コーヒーマシン.jp through IP Mirror, IP Mirror would in fact register xn--tcki4f2b5f2bb.jp for me.
However, a person putting the Japanese address in his browser "コーヒーマシン.jp" would also end up on my domain, right?
Does that mean that in fact I also "own" コーヒーマシン.jp when registering xn--tcki4f2b5f2bb.jp ?
Or would there be a risk that the JP registry at some point would start making available "UTF-8" (with that I mean registering directly a name with Japanese signs instead of the Punycode equivalent) domains so that "コーヒーマシン.jp" could be registered by someone else?
And does it work the same with IDN for all Asian countries or may there be differences?
Thanks in advance!
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