Minor considerations

After the decision of which characters should be allowed under .no had been taken, both domain name bundles and an increase in quota of names per applicant were considered.

Domain name bundles

The IDN work group in IETF proposed that one could identify characters that could be considered to be equal (sound the same and/or look the same), as in the case of ø and ö. Domain names that was identical except for these characters could be considered to be different versions of the same name, and the proposal was to lump them together in an inseparable domain name bundle to avoid user confusion. This would e.g. mean that the person applying for dør.no would also get the domain name dör.no.

When considering the Norwegian languages it is uncertain that there are any characters that always are equal. While some might consider dør and dör as different versions of the same word, Møller car and Möller's fish oil would probably object strenuously to møller and möller being different versions of the same name. Especially if it meant that one of them got both domain names, while the other got neither. The same issue arises for accents, where some words might be considered as identical whether the accent is there or not, while the accent in other words is used to give the word different meanings (e.g. for, fór (=traveled) and fòr (=furrow)).

The policy advisory council pointed out that, given the fact that choice of characters is sometimes used consciously to separate one concept from another, bundling "similar" characters could easily cause just as much confusion for the users as leaving them unbundled. In addition it was unfortunate to tie the domain name policy so close to Norwegian syntax. It should instead be up to each user to market "their" domain name with the right accent/character and also to register more domain names and by that create their own "domain name bundles" if they desired. The policy advisory council concluded with recommending that Norid should not introduce domain name bundles. Norid followed the recommendation.

Quota

The statistics on how many domain names an organization has shows that only 4 percent of all organizations have more than 5 domain names. One can therefore assume that the chosen quota on 15 domain names per organization to a large degree meets the needs of the organizations. Nevertheless the policy advisory council recommended increasing the quota with 5 when the character set under .no expanded. The increase was proposed because internationalized domain names are not as robust as domain names containing ASCII characters, and many subscribers would therefore request both versions. Norid took the advice into consideration and the amount of domains an applicant may register was increased from 15 to 20.