Expanded International Character Set for Domain Names

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has cleared the way to move beyond the standard latin characters for domain names and urls. They have approved the “internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process” which will allow people to apply for new domain names in native languages/scripts such as Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew and others.

This is a process that has been working through the system since the mid-1990s. Now, rather than making the world conform to converting their native language into a string of roman letters, domain owners can provide internet address in their native language and characters.

Written by admin on November 6th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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