3. I work with Nominet and it has been talking about the other proposal passed by ICANN yesterday - the fast track implementation of Internationalised domain names. This means that in the future people will be able to use Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew or other characters at their end of their web addresses.
Before yesterday, the internet only supported top level domains written in the Roman character set. At the moment, countries such as China, the Far East or Middle East begin typing the URL in their local character set, but then need to switch to set to "US keyboard" to type in the last part of a web address. Once the Internationalised domains come into play this won't be the case. Users in these parts of the world will finally have the same web experience as those users who speak English.
It is great news. In my eyes, it is definitely a day that will go down in History.
1. One interesting point to note is that while individuals may not actually have the cash or the infrastructure to set up their own TLD, we may see companies formed with the sole purpose of selling domains under a certain desireable TLD.
Regarding the example of .tech, surely this kind of TLD shouldn't end up owned by just a single company?
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gemgriff
June 27th
3. I work with Nominet and it has been talking about the other proposal passed by ICANN yesterday - the fast track implementation of Internationalised domain names. This means that in the future people will be able to use Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew or other characters at their end of their web addresses.
Before yesterday, the internet only supported top level domains written in the Roman character set. At the moment, countries such as China, the Far East or Middle East begin typing the URL in their local character set, but then need to switch to set to "US keyboard" to type in the last part of a web address. Once the Internationalised domains come into play this won't be the case. Users in these parts of the world will finally have the same web experience as those users who speak English.
It is great news. In my eyes, it is definitely a day that will go down in History.
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lth
June 27th
2. This stinks. It will make it far easier for big companies to hold on to good internet domain names and a lot harder for "the little guy".
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armchaircritic
June 27th
1. One interesting point to note is that while individuals may not actually have the cash or the infrastructure to set up their own TLD, we may see companies formed with the sole purpose of selling domains under a certain desireable TLD.
Regarding the example of .tech, surely this kind of TLD shouldn't end up owned by just a single company?
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