Curious

[andrewducker]

http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر

So, international DNS has gone live. Does everyone see this properly? And does it work for them?

Interestingly, I found it quite tricky to copy/paste as the text goes right to left, while the http goes left to right...

Comments

[simont]

Doesn't work for me. I can see Arabic text in the link in your post, but when I click on the link, my browser (Linux Firefox) gives me an error saying "Address Not Found [...] www.وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر could not be found. Please check the name and try again".

I'm not sure why not; I know roughly how the mechanism is supposed to work, and as far as I can see it ought to be foolproof, but apparently not. I suppose it's possible that my company's name server is mucking about deliberately with international names in some way; if I remember, I'll try again at home.

eta: yes, Linux Firefox on my Debian machine at home works fine (though, as other people say, the URL bar shows the raw xn--gibberish names rather than the Arabic). Something odd at my office, then.