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| Title | Foreign Alphabets Approved for Domain Naming |
| Body | From http://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/600292.html Foreign Alphabets Approved for Domain Naming ICANN Approves Initial Use of Internationalized Domain Names October 30, 2009 The Internet's naming system has become truly global with the approval of new extensions that will eventually enable entire website address names to be written in all the language scripts of the world. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today agreed on the introduction of a number of "internationalized" domain names, or IDNs, where scripts such as Chinese, Korean or Arabic will be used in the last portion of an address name -- the part after the dot such as dot-com and dot-org. Currently, due to technical constraints, all domain names end in letters from the Latin alphabet (A through Z). After years of work by ICANN, a global system for the use of other scripts in domain names has been designed, tested and now approved. It could lead to a dramatic increase in the number of global Internet users. Read the full article at http://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/600292.html |
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