Thanks Andre & Michael. Different numbers, interesting. But they give me a scale. Any idea where I might find IDN ccTLD registration numbers? And how many have MX records? D

On 16/01/2018, at 8:58 PM, Andre Schappo <A.Schappo@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:

namestat.org/s/top-idns[namestat.org] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__namestat.org_s_top-2Did...>

André Schappo

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On 1/15/2018 11:58 PM, Andre Schappo wrote:

namestat.org/s/top-idns <https://namestat.org/s/top-idns>

André Schappo

I note: This is something I did expect from the day I first saw that application. The TLD is so long and cumbersome that I've always wondered about the motivation to register it for any other purpose than effectively a stand-lone domain.... A./

On 1/16/2018 7:58 AM, Vittorio Bertola wrote:

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Il 16 gennaio 2018 alle 16.23 Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> ha scritto:

I note:

This is something I did expect from the day I first saw that application. The TLD is so long and cumbersome that I've always wondered about the motivation to register it for any other purpose than effectively a stand-lone domain....

Basically I agree, but I also note that "long and cumbersome" is a subjective, cultural evaluation, and for German speakers

like myself

those words are not as long or cumbersome as they are for everyone else.

but while you could make "Fußbodenschleifmaschinenverleih" (an oft photographed name on a store front) an IDN, or even a TLD, it would still be silly to do so.

The real "cumbersome element" in these and many new TLDs, IMHO, is the idea of using full natural language words rather than codes and abbreviations; this is something that takes a while to get used to, and before you do you will instinctively perceive these TLDs as "weird".

A long word like that is still cumbersome - at some point it becomes silly to try to access it by typing - when that occurs, the name no longer need to be descriptive and complete, because you will access it via search. In my example, the full name of the business would include the location or the owners name (or the form of business) to be unique, so now you have a non-unique but cumbersome handle. Perhaps there is a reason why 46 .vermögensberater(financial adviser) 47 .vermögensberatung(financial advice) were the only Latin-based IDN TLDs at all in the first round. Cheers, A./

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