Comments on: Upgrading Your Sales Process: Domain Search 2.0 http://opensrs.com/blog/2010/03/upgrading-your-sales-process-domain-search-2-0/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:38:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Heather Leson http://opensrs.com/blog/2010/03/upgrading-your-sales-process-domain-search-2-0/cpage/1/#comment-973 Heather Leson Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:31:11 +0000 http://opensrs.com/blog/2010/03/upgrading-your-sales-process-domain-search-2-0/#comment-973 Hi Mansour, The Development team confirmed that this is fixed. Let Support or myself know if you have any more questions, Heather Hi Mansour, The Development team confirmed that this is fixed. Let Support or myself know if you have any more questions,

Heather

]]> By: mansour elseify http://opensrs.com/blog/2010/03/upgrading-your-sales-process-domain-search-2-0/cpage/1/#comment-972 mansour elseify Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:49:43 +0000 http://opensrs.com/blog/2010/03/upgrading-your-sales-process-domain-search-2-0/#comment-972 All multilingual domain names share one thing in common: They start with the English letters ?XN?, are followed by 2 + dashes, and are followed by a combination of letters and/or numbers preceding the ..com or .net. Example: ??????.com (xn--igb2a4cg0ab.com) (Translated in from Arabic to English ? ?American?) This domain name was registered on 11/03/2009. In the past couple of weeks Tucows has changed the search functionality for domain availability. As a direct result of that, if you search for the same domain name from our example above, the search result will say that the domain name is available, since the search result suppresses the dashes and gives you the domain name without dashes. If the domain name is registered by a customer relying on the search result, without noticing that the dashes have been suppressed, the customer will register a domain name that has no meaning or relation to the multilingual domain name he is attempting to register. Manipulating the search result, assuming that the customer who is trying to register a domain name that includes dashes does not know what is good for him, defeats the logic of the domain registration and leads to a faulty registration of multilingual domains. i suggest that all multilingual registration be suspended until the issue is resolved. The puny code produced through the search is incorrect for all multilingual registrations. This will lead customers to think that they have registered a certain foreign language domain name when in fact they are registering meaningless unusable alphabetical and numerical characters with no meaning. All multilingual domain names share one thing in common:

They start with the English letters ?XN?, are followed by 2 + dashes, and are followed by a combination of letters and/or numbers preceding the ..com or .net.

Example:

??????.com (xn--igb2a4cg0ab.com) (Translated in from Arabic to English ?
?American?) This domain name was registered on 11/03/2009.

In the past couple of weeks Tucows has changed the search functionality for domain availability. As a direct result of that, if you search for the same domain name from our example above, the search result will say that the domain name is available, since the search result suppresses the dashes and gives you the domain name without dashes. If the domain name is registered by a customer relying on the search result, without noticing that the dashes have been suppressed, the customer will register a domain name that has no meaning or relation to the multilingual domain name he is attempting to register. Manipulating the search result, assuming that the customer who is trying to register a domain name that includes dashes does not know what is good for him, defeats the logic of the domain registration and leads to a faulty registration of multilingual domains.

i suggest that all multilingual registration be suspended until the issue is resolved. The puny code produced through the search is incorrect for all multilingual registrations. This will lead customers to think that they have registered a certain foreign language domain name when in fact they are registering meaningless unusable alphabetical and numerical characters with no meaning.

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