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:Actually a very dumb idea (Score:4, Interesting)
Fuck that, now I can block by TLD!
Re:"Surprising?" (Score:5, Interesting)
The honest fellows at the Russian Business Network will need all the TLDs they can get to stay ahead of the blacklists...
Re:Wow, an amazing co-incidence (Score:5, Interesting)
How deliciously appropriate. Slashcode's truly embarrassingly archaic handling of Unicode finally comes front and center on the front page.
How hard is it to get Unicode support in this code? Seriously, it's freaking blogging software! It's not like you're doing byte-dependent low-level math requiring the exact codepoints of ASCII characters! You're just delivering text over HTTP! What is WRONG with you? Do you guys seriously want to show that as an example of "News for Nerds", or have you seriously finally killed off that byline once and for all because you can't understand something as simple as Unicode?
We needed to step back, not forward (Score:4, Interesting)
We should have ditched the com, net and org and just force everyone to use TLDs according to their countries. Sites like www.ebay.com would be www.ebay.us, etc.
Won't stay ahead of mine... apk (Score:0, Interesting)
My app for blocking dorks like them (& I am FULLY aware of them bigtime, 1st set of "online crooks" I was aware of that used "fastflux" & dynamic dns botnet tech in fact from as far back as 2007 iirc) is already UNICODE aware & has all the new gTLD's incorporated into it @ this point -> http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74 [start64.com]
* :)
(Just for "the future", looking ahead to what you speak of as an inevitability... planning ahead).
APK
P.S.=> Nothing to be tracked yet though - I've only gotten 1 entry over time that was UNICODE & a known malware spewing site (from Norton SafeWeb) - my 12 sources for data don't currently track & list UNICODE gTLD's yet either, but that's inevitable with this new set being introduced by ICANN imo...
... apk