International Domain Names Coming in 2010
For the past decade, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which governs domains, registrations, Internet Protocol addresses, and many other aspects of the net, had been talking about opening up International Domain Names (IDN) support in the Top Level Domains (TLD). TLD is the root domain names e.g. http://mydomain.com or http://mydomain.com.au etc. It was announced days ago that ICANN from 16 Nov 2009, it will fast track the IDN to include other international characters on top of the 26 alphabet and Latin characters.
The face of the Internet is about to change in Year 2010, and its potential impact on international Internet use cannot be understated. Soon you can have domain names in Chinese, Japanese or other native characters.
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