03-16-2006, 02:21 PM
Quote:The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the US organisation which regulates the use of .com, .net and .org top level domains (TLDs), has outlined a plan to test TLDs using foreign language characters, also known as internationalised domain names (IDNs).
When the domain name system was first developed, it used only the Latin alphabet, plus additional characters such as hyphens. As the internet has expanded, many users, especially those in Arabic and Asian countries, have expressed an interest in having TLDs in their native languages which do not use the Latin alphabet...
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