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.""
Re:Wow, an amazing co-incidence (Score:4, Insightful)
The hilarious thing is that I can't tell if you typed out unicode characters or not, because this is a very high-tech website.
Re:Wow, an amazing co-incidence (Score:5, Insightful)
Does having a front-page article shit all over itself because the non-ASCII characters that are the entire point of the article decide not to render count?
Re:Wow, an amazing co-incidence (Score:4, Insightful)
Slashdot will never fix their unicode issues. Or their lack of editors who edit. Or their sensationalist and, sometimes, completely wrong summaries. All of that costs time/money and, if they even still cared about value over money while owned by GeekNet, they certainly don't now that they're owned by Dice.
IMHO, Slashdot is dead as a proper "nerd news" site, and has been for some time. Unfortunately, I've yet to find a site (nerd or otherwise) that has the same comment moderation system (which is still the best one, in my opinion, though not without its flaws) and a large, informative/funny/insightful community. Slashdot still enjoys popularity thanks to its community, which is always more worthwhile than the summaries, which almost seems like a catch-22 setup. At least, it's the only reason I'm still here.
Perhaps it would be worthwhile for the comments for this story to be hijacked and used to suggest good alternatives to /.?