I answered myself on this other thread. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=913284 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=913284 Every other part of the URL inclu

I answered myself on this other thread. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=913284 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=913284 Every other part of the URL including the rest of the domain name can already be Unicode encoded. This is how spoofing attacks are formed by using non-Latin characters in domain names that look like the Latin characters they replace. This latest ICANN decision doesn't seem to make anything less convenient for the English speaking world than it already was.