IDN .ca's with French characters are coming!

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I am seeing it more in the news and on blogs, reporting on the new CIRA change coming to allow french accents on letters in .ca domains.

1) Right now they are proposing if you own an ASCII .ca, then you have the rights to all the versions with accents (even if they aren't the correct accents, to help stop phishing).

So if you own telephone.ca, you alone have the rights to create téléphone.ca. It seems similar to the rules of how the provincial codes used to work.

2) The other thing they are proposing is that if you transfer a domain like that, you also transfer all the right to the IDN versions. I don't know if I like that so much, because some words are the same in english and french, but with accents, like telephone. Or, sometimes an english word is spelled the same as a french word with accents, but has a totally different meaning.

You could run telephone.ca for an English audience, and téléphone.ca for a french audience on a different site. It almost makes the current domain telephone.ca more valuable now, because you can create a second domain and website with it for a whole different audience.

I like part 1) in that the registrant has rights to all the IDN versions, but I don't like part 2). For example, if I own telephone.ca I should be able to create Téléphone.ca and sell it to someone, but keep telephone.ca.

But I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too.

Is anyone else planning on registering IDN .ca's or upgrading their ASCII .ca's to IDN? I am going to do some of mine and see if they get traffic, if so it will be a bonus. I also just started learning how to do IDN characters with my keyboard, it's easier than i thought.

Overall I think IDN .ca's in french make sense, it is just part of the correct spelling of the language.

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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/can...138294139.html

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/cira-e...mes-2012-01-29

http://www.montrealgazette.com/techn...141/story.html

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/techno...141/story.html

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Thanks for the update.. appreciate it

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I like part 1) in that the registrant has rights to all the IDN versions, but I don't like part 2). For example, if I own telephone.ca I should be able to create Téléphone.ca and sell it to someone, but keep telephone.ca.

Agree