ICANN Approves Non-Latin ccTLDs 284
Several readers including alphadogg tipped the news that ICANN has approved non-Latin ccTLDs at its meeting in Seoul. "Starting in mid-November, countries and territories will be able to apply to show domain names in their native language, a major technical tweak to the Internet designed to increase language accessibility. On Friday, the Internet's addressing authority approved a Fast-Track Process for applying for an IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) and will begin accepting applications on Nov. 16. The move comes after years of technical testing and policy development... Currently, domain names can only be displayed using the Latin alphabet letters A-Z, the digits 0-9 and the hyphen, but in future countries will be able to display country-code Top Level Domains (cc TLDs) in their native language. ... 'The usability of IDNs may be limited, as not all application software is capable of working with IDNs,' ICANN said in a 59-page proposal (PDF) dated Sept. 30 that describes the [application] process." Reader dhermann adds, "Great, now even less chance I can identify NSFW links before they are blocked by my work's big brother app and my boss is notified... again."
terrorist level domain (Score:4, Funny)
I took Latin in high school (Score:2, Funny)
I'm glad we're going with Non-Latin TLDs now, I never understood going to the website "e.pluribus.unm"
Perdire (Score:3, Funny)
first urls, then slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
ï höpé thãt slâshðõt wìll dö thís töø wìth ÜRLs!
www.íçáñn.örg
ìt wörkéð!
Re:first urls, then slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Here's a demonstration of how non-Latin characters show on /., starting with Arabic:
Hindi:
Russian:
Japanese:
Korean:
Chinese:
Re:ICANN has lost it! (Score:3, Funny)
And now, with today's progress, that'd be CØBÖL.
Re:FORSTUS POSTUS (Score:3, Funny)
The Internet has to evolve (Score:5, Funny)
....although obviously not ... in Kansas.
Re:Hmm... (Score:3, Funny)
micrösöft.cöm?
That's Microsoft with the volume turned up to 11?