Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Most Dramatic Internet Shake-Up In 40 Years To Allow Web Addresses In Languages From Arabic To Japanese

A Chinese internet user browses for information on Google. Soon internet addresses will be available in Chinese script along with Arabic and Cyrillic

From The Daily Mail:

International domain names or addresses that can be written in non-English characters are expected to be approved this week.

This will spark one of the biggest changes to the internet in its four-decade history.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN - the non-profit group that oversees domain names - is holding a meeting this week in Seoul.

The ICANN board will decide if will allow entire internet addresses to be in scripts that are not based on Latin letters.

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