AjiNIMC - 5:51 pm on May 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

I assumed that www.EXAMPLE.COM would be forced to www.example.com - doesn't seem to work that way.

This is already considered same, look at the global definition by ICANN ( icann.org/riodejaneiro/idn-topic.htm )

example.com Example.com eXample.com exaMple.com examPle.com exampLe.com examplE.com EXAMPLE.com ExAMPLE.com EXaMPLE.com EXAmPLE.com EXAMpLE.com EXAMPlE.com EXAMPLe.com etc. In the languages that utilize Latin characters (e.g., English, Finnish, German, Italian, etc.), each letter has two variants: upper case and lower case. The Internet's basic DNS and hostname specifications provide that the upper-case and lower-case variants of each letter are considered to be equivalent. Thus, all the variant domain names in the above list are treated as the same domain name.

I hope this answers your query.

Regards,
AjiNIMC