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I'm not sure how feasible this is, but wouldn't it make sense for .com/.net/etc to be latin alphabet only and allow other domains to be localized with unicode? I wouldn't really have a problem with 新浪首页.cn, and I doubt I would confuse ɢoogle.ru or whatever with google.com

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That defeats the purpose of an internationalized dns system.

The whole point of getting unicode into domain names is so we can have 新浪首页.com so that it's no longer a latin alphabet centric system.

Doesn't that yield a whole class of problems though that we're trying to solve with obtuse solutions such as "let's make that character set in red so people don't get phished"? How is that any more international and/or easy to use?

It seems that putting the allowed character set into the tld would be a pretty user-friendly way of doing that.

Edit: As an added bonus, tlds are centrally managed, and are already western/latin encoded. So why not customize it with a localized abbreviation for the language or tld type?

One is a matter of international standardization of a protocol. Another is a matter of client side security for a certain type of user.

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