ICANN Approves Use Of Non-Latin Alphabets In Web Domain Names
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By Rick Whiting, ChannelWeb
9:14 AM EDT Fri. Oct. 30, 2009
Web surfers might begin seeing some very different Internet addresses
next year. The governing body that oversees Internet addresses has given
its approval to a plan to permit Web addresses in characters other than
the Latin alphabet, including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and Korean.
The 15-member board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN), meeting in Seoul, South Korea, voted unanimously Friday
to allow scripts other than Latin characters in domain names. The move
came after six years of debate and technical work on the issue.
But the change will initially apply only to country-code domains
controlled by governments, such as Web addresses that include .cn for
china or .kr for Korea. Those domains account for about 40 percent of
all Web sites globally, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal.
Non-Latin versions of .com, .net and .org won't be allowed for at least
several years.
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