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International allphabets for some domains approved - -

By Evan Ramstad

  • OCTOBER 30, 2009, 2:31 A.M. ET
  • International Alphabets for Some Domains Approved

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    SEOUL -- The private body that oversees the basic design of the Internet voted Friday to allow Web addresses be expressed in characters other than those of the Roman alphabet, though the change will initially be limited to domains controlled by national governments.

    The board of directors of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, adopted the change at the end of its latest semi-annual international gathering. The decision climaxed six years of discussion and technical work.

    But the change for at least a year or so will only apply to country-code top level domains – those with endings like .us or .cn or .uk, for United States, China and United Kingdom, respectively – that are controlled by governments.

    Those domains account for about 40% of all Web sites around the world. The rest are generic top level domains, with endings like .com, .org or .net. Access to those domains is obtained commercially and Icann is still developing rules for how multiple-language names will be distributed to them.

    "This is only the first step, but it is an incredibly big one and an historic move toward the internationalization of the Internet," Rod Beckstrom, chief executive officer of Icann, said in a statement.

    The organization is a private, non-profit entity that, along with a similar Internet Engineering Task Force, strives to create rules to protect the universality of the data network.

    During the conference, many business owners and computer scientists urged Icann to also move quickly to adapt mo



        
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