Comments on: Coming in 2009: Yourname@somewhere.中国

The era of online domination by the Roman alphabet will come one step closer to its end next year when a new top-level domain for China, .中国, is deployed.

[kcotham]

Great! I wonder if my spam filter is going to be able to deal with it? Why don't they just use Pinyin?

[karpenterskids]

The government should use it to host their top-secret files.

Normal people like me would have difficulty just typing in the address, not to mention conquering the security on the actual page. =p

[man_w_balls]

the chinese keyboard is a myth
so this is far-out, man
how do you type that?

[ujur]

kcotham

Pinyin is used for helping one to learn Chinese, more specifically, pronounciation. Pinyin is never used for any form of publication and communication.

I wish the implementation wil be flexible enough for rare Chinese language users to read Chinese or the default language of their device, means automatic translation if the Chinese characters cannot be displayed, not the codes that literally no one can read.

[andukz]

I don't think this is a good idea. There are still a lot of machines there that don't use unicode and this will just mess things up.

[naip]

It won't be that bad. The DNS System has already moved to unicode