[LIS-Forum] ICANN TO TEST DOMAIN NAMES IN 11 LANGUAGES

[Farooque Shaheen]

The organization that oversees the Internet address system is launching an 
evaluation of International Domain Names (IDN) that will allow Internet 
users to test top-level domains in 11 languages. 

Currently, only the ASCII characters A through Z are available for use in 
the portions of the domain before the top-level domains, the Internet 
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said in a statement. 

A site with content that's entirely in Japanese, for example, can have the 
initial portion of its URL in Japanese, but the URL still needs to end in 
a .com or .net spelled out in ASCII characters, according to the 
statement.

Beginning Monday, Internet users around the globe will be able to access 
wiki pages with the domain name example.test in 11 test languages: Arabic, 
Persian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, Hindi, Greek, 
Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil. The languages were selected based on 
the Internet communities that had the most interest in moving the project 
forward. 

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=web_site_management&articleId=9042479&taxonomyId=62&intsrc=kc_top

Thanks & Regards,
Farooque Shaheen,
Keane India Pvt Ltd.
+1-925-831-1676 Ext 40366 (VOIP)
+91-80-26678388 Ext 4105 (Tel)

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