ICANN Approves .Asia Domain, Discusses Non-English Web Addresses
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approved a ".asia" Web domain to unify the Asia-Pacific community (but delayed the ".xxx" zone for pornography sites.)
The new ".asia." domain would supplement suffixes available for individual countries, such as ".cn" for China and ".jp" for Japan. ICANN earlier approved ".eu" for the European Union; registrations for that begin Wednesday.
But what's more interesting, ICANN discussed methods for allowing new Web addresses to be created in Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic and other alphabets instead of the Latin script used in English. The technical tweaks required are complicated, but a test run is expected to begin shortly, ICANN spokesman Andrew Robertson said.
Source: Yahoo
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