Internet set for change with non-English addresses - GoFuckYourself.com

SeanLEE · 10-26-2009, 04:19 AM

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/200910...internet_names

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The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names ? or addresses ? that can be written in languages other than English, an official said Monday.

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. Domain names are the monikers behind every Web site, e-mail address and Twitter post, such as ".com" and other suffixes.

One of the key issues to be taken up by ICANN's board at this week's gathering is whether to allow for the first time entire Internet addresses to be in scripts that are not based on Latin letters. That could potentially open up the Web to more people around the world as addresses could be in characters as diverse as Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Hindi and Cyrillic ? in which Russian is written.

"This is the biggest change technically to the Internet since it was invented 40 years ago," Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of the ICANN board, told reporters, calling it a "fantastically complicated technical feature." He said he expects the board to grant approval on Friday, the conference's final day.

BlackCrayon · 10-26-2009, 04:24 AM

neat. i never bothered with idn because well.. i can't speak it nor understand it. the only effect it will have on my is that now i will not only get spam in chinese, the urls will be in chinese too. good opportunity for some who can take advantage of it though.

Serge Litehead · 10-26-2009, 04:42 AM

wonder if TLDs such as ".com" will be in other languages, will be pain to switch between languages just to type a domain name

BlackCrayon · 10-26-2009, 04:46 AM

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Originally Posted by holograph

wonder if TLDs such as ".com" will be in other languages, will be pain to switch between languages just to type a domain name

Yep, that is the whole point. IDN's exist now but you have to type .com,net,etc in english. This changes that.

10-26-2009, 04:24 AM	#2
BlackCrayon Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Ottawa Posts: 19,631	neat. i never bothered with idn because well.. i can't speak it nor understand it. the only effect it will have on my is that now i will not only get spam in chinese, the urls will be in chinese too. good opportunity for some who can take advantage of it though. __________________ you don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day..

10-26-2009, 04:42 AM	#3
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