Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Regulator approves multi-lingual web addresses

One of the most significant changes in the Internet's 40-year history has taken place with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)'s approval of internet addresses containing non-Latin characters.
ICANN, at a meeting in Seoul, South Korea, has given countries the go-ahead to apply for internet addresses (likely as of 16 November) using characters from their national language, such as Greek, Hindi, Arabic, Korean, Japanese and Cyrillic.

The implication of the move is great, as it can open the web to more people around the globe.
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Courtesy: Silicon Republic

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