Wednesday, November 18, 2009

ICANN Opens Application Process For Non-Latin Character Website Addresses

ICANN has move ahead with the plan to implement non-Latin web addresses. They have already received six applications. The new domain names could by live by some point next year.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.13ac0d5c8683cde272d6517ecfd6d5a2.a51&show_article=1

"The first applications were accepted on Monday for internationalised domain names (IDNs), in one of the most significant steps to making the Internet more accessible around the globe.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has opened the application process, ending the exclusive use of Latin characters for website addresses.

On the first day, "we have already received six applications from around the world for three different scripts," ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom told an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

He said that while ICANN could not reveal the names of those applying, Egypt -- with .misr, meaning Egypt in Arabic -- and Russia had already made public their applications for country code top level domains in their scripts.
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