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Get ready for non-Latin letter domain names - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com
This makes perfect sense. When I was in China, people there used latin lettered domain names, but the names never made sense because they didn't know English. You'd have people with email addresses like someone @ xjly22.com. Now they can have it in their own language, among many other cultures.
Article said:SEOUL, South Korea - 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 non-Latin script, 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 makes perfect sense. When I was in China, people there used latin lettered domain names, but the names never made sense because they didn't know English. You'd have people with email addresses like someone @ xjly22.com. Now they can have it in their own language, among many other cultures.