Comment by bombcar

The reality is that unless your in the US or "most" of Europe, you're going to WANT Unicode domain names - people in china are mostly fine with http://www.china.cn but they're going to really want to use their own language https://xn--fiq8ituh5mn9d1qbc28lu5dusc.xn--fiqs8s or https://xn--mgbeiue0iwb.xn--ngbc5azd - https://xn--wgv71a119e.jp

Demanding that everyone use our alphabet because we're too dumb to recognize the difference between google.com and xn--ggle-55da.com is the worst kind of "security through superior firepower"

(the fact that HN shows these correctly in the EDIT window but have to dump to punycode in display is sad, tbh)