ICANN Approves .IRAN (in Non-Latin)
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penciling_in writes "CircleID reports that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced its approval of non-Latin string evaluation of 'Iran.' This approval will allow the availability of Iran's top-level domain in its own native language, Persian, also known as Farsi (that is, the domain name .IRAN, in non-Latin characters). According to ICANN, there are currently 33 requests for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs), representing 22 languages, out of which 18 countries/territories have so far been approved."
Show me the TLD (Score:3, Interesting)
So... what does this look like? I think a lot of us are using OSs that show us Unicode and non-Latin characters, so lets see it.
non-latin names and whois (Score:3, Interesting)
Who has any clarity / clue on how whois gets implemented for these domains?
Re:ICANN: Tower of Babel for the modern day? (Score:2, Interesting)
I like to think that most people would agree that a single language would be one less roadblock in an advanced society. Not trying to westernize anyone...hell, I'd even accept Chinese dialects since they're the most spoken already.
Re:What injustice! (Score:2, Interesting)
Comment removed (Score:3, Interesting)