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more about #icann jepzilla: Time to register pàypal.ca! more » Xagest: I'm just wondering how I'm gonna visit some of these sites with only my US keyboard... #nonlatintopleveldomains more » Gordonium: It's a good thing the ICANN isn't run like Apple, or they'd start inexplicably rejecting domain names for being certain languages. #nonlatintopleveldo... more » MadMacs: There was one advantage of latin type URL's. A lot of the URL's were in English, and this forced more people to learn to speak and read English, and ... more » OCEntertainment: Thus it begins. Sage Whedon did thusly predict: in 500 years, the two most dominant languages will be Chinese and English, so folks in the future will... more » TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.: [www.ÆØÅ.æøå] #nonlatintopleveldomains more » bobofish: This makes no sense to me, even though it is more touchy feely. In aviation, the official language is English, and even a commuter plane pilot from M... more » Paul Beardfacé: אניגרZOמ'דo.com زضطمسدس.com मैंमीZओजीओघ.com hmm #nonlatintopleveldomains more » wannahakkalooki: Well, it's going to make things more interesting when searching for info or when you have to type url's. Don't expect me to type: صاجضسذ.com! No... more » CraigJ: Why does everything have to be boiled down to racism? I'm really surprised to find that ASCII and single-byte Unicode are racist. Who knew? Also su... more » Duckspwn: Oh that's what we would like you to think. In reality we are merely opening the floodgates so that we may more closely monitor our non-white bretheren... more » -
#internet
Internationalized, Non-Latin Domain Names Officially Approved
We didn't doubt that they would, but the ICANN has officially approved non-Latin character domain names. The pleasant surprise is that the system and guidelines for these internationalized domain names (IDNs) look pretty solid, even if hiccups are expected. More » -
#internet
Internet Finally Getting Non-Latin Domain Names
The ICANN, the folks who set some guidelines that make the Internet go 'round, are in the final stages of passing a proposal to introduce non-Latin characters to web addresses. Finally, there'll be some non-porn-based multiculturalism on the Internet. More » -
#domainnames
ICANN Opens Door For Crazy Domain Names Like Crap.Crap
ICANN has just made a decision that goes beyond allowing .xxx to be a top level domain; they're allowing all words to be top level domains. That means you're going to see domains like fuck.shit, shit.shit, shit.fuck, whatisthisshit.fuck, and so forth. What's not allowed is domains that conflict with trademarks (.pepsi was the example), too similar to current top level domains, or names associated with countries or governments (juicy.turkey). Companies will also register their products and services, leading to really annoying domains like pleaseplayyour.ps3pleaseplease, or dontyouwantanother.ipod. Nice one, ICANN. Nice one. [USA Today]
