ICANN Approves First Set of New gTLDs 106
hypnosec writes "ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved the first set of global Top Level Domains (gTLDs) and surprisingly all four are non-English words including . ("Web" in Arabic); . ("Game" in Chinese); . ("Online" in Russian); and . ("Web site" in Russian). Approval of four non-English words can be considered as a milestone and this approval marks "the first time that people will be able to access and type in a website address for generic Top-Level Domains in their native language.""
Wow, an amazing co-incidence (Score:5, Funny)
surprisingly all four are non-English words including . ("Web" in Arabic); . ("Game" in Chinese); . ("Online" in Russian); and . ("Web site" in Russian).
That's an amazing co-incidence that all those languages use a mere full stop to mean different things!
If they wanted it (Score:4, Funny)
If the world wanted to have control over the internet naming schemes, they should have spent the time, money, and effort to INVENT the internet.
'Murica!
Re:Wow, an amazing co-incidence (Score:2, Funny)
Since Slashdot sees fit to block those languages, I think I'll take their cue and add Arabic, Russian, and Chinese language urls to my spam filter :)
Won't adding "." to your URL filter block everything?
I'd like U+1F4A9 please (Score:5, Funny)
So, if unicode characters are now a legitimate part of website names, I'd like to register a new domain:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm [fileformat.info]
Imagine all the fun I could have with it: microsoft.pile-of-poo, oracle.pile-of-poo, mostgovernmentrepresentatives.pile-of-poo and so on. It would make blogging so much more satisfying. Who wants to be a dot-com anymore? So 90s. Be poop instead!
Not Quite... (Score:5, Funny)
"the first time that people will be able to access and type in a website address for generic Top-Level Domains in their native language."
My native language is english, I've been able to do this for a long time.