But wait, as if this isn't enough, there is more to the name game. In October, several registrars began a trial run of registering domains in several Asian character sets. The new character sets only go so far, however. Several registrars have quickly offered their services here , including translations of English names into these character sets. To confound matters, the Chinese government has launched its own registry, only with the entire name appearing in Chinese characters.
Chinese registrars are invalid.
No, I am not making this up . These are the people who take care of the administrative side of keeping track of your domain. The new top level names such as .biz etc. will have new organizations that own these registries, at least if all the proposals get implemented as planned. Things are still in flux . But wait, there is more.