Editing Domain name (section)

==IDN variants==
[[ICANN]] Business Constituency (BC) has spent decades trying to make IDN variants work at the second level, and in the last several years at the top level. Domain name variants are domain names recognized in different character encodings, like a single domain presented in [[Traditional Chinese characters|traditional Chinese]] and [[Simplified Chinese characters|simplified Chinese]]. It is an [[Internationalization and localization]] problem. Under Domain Name Variants, the different encodings of the domain name (in simplified and traditional Chinese) would resolve to the same host.<ref name="levine">{{cite web |title=Domain Name Variants Still Won't Work |url=https://jl.ly/ICANN/variantno.html |first=John R. |last=Levine |author-link=John R. Levine |date=April 21, 2019 |access-date=May 23, 2020 |archive-date=July 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729234842/https://jl.ly/ICANN/variantno.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Comment on ICANN Recommendations for Managing IDN Variant Top-Level Domains |url=https://www.bizconst.org/assets/docs/positions-statements/2018/2018_09September_17%20BC%20Comment%20on%20Managing%20IDN%20Variant%20TLDs.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.bizconst.org/assets/docs/positions-statements/2018/2018_09September_17%20BC%20Comment%20on%20Managing%20IDN%20Variant%20TLDs.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |publisher=[[ICANN]] |date=April 21, 2019 |access-date=May 23, 2020}}</ref>

According to [[John R. Levine|John Levine]], an expert on Internet related topics, "Unfortunately, variants don't work. The problem isn't putting them in the DNS, it's that once they're in the DNS, they don't work anywhere else."<ref name="levine" />