The expected explosion of new domain name registrations will not be limited to the Roman alphabet, writes Simon Mundy.
Under the new plans from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, non-Latin scripts such as Japanese and Cyrillic can also be used in web addresses, allowing addresses to end with “almost any word in any language”.
This means that users of sites such as the Russian social networking hub Vkontakte, or the Chinese search engine Baidu, will be able to access them without using the western alphabet. More than half of internet users use other scripts.
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