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by ujjvala 5484 days ago
What would happen to top level domain names like .com, .net etc ? Even they use non-latin characters before .com, .net etc "com", "net" is still Latin.
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Not exactly. There are already IDN TLDs in existence.

More specifically, the "." is still a separator. Any component of the domain name can independently have xn-- and it will be interpreted as Punycode. Today you could register ujjvala.السعودية and it would be completely valid.

I don't think they would let . be part of beginning or ending of the domain name.
You can have http://ai/ so I guess you can have anything.
And I thought x.org was unusually short...
. is by itself a Latin character.