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ICANN opened up web domain names to non Latin languages inviting countries to register DNS names in foreign languages. Egypt has applied for an Arabic Internet domain name with a suffix equating in the ASCII character set to “masr,” meaning Egypt in the Arabic language. This has drawn criticism abroad due to making these websites more difficult to access from the western nations where the computers and desktops are not configured by default to enter these characters.
This paves the way for more unique website DNS names online that will be primarily specific to a nation or language. Though this is a big deal internationally, a few nations such as China were already creating web domains with non-ASCII characters even without ICANN’s approval previously.
What is your opinion on non-ASCII web url’s? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Should the Internet remain 1 universal language in respect to domain names?
-Dragon Blogger
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November 16th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
This never occurred to me; and I don’t think it ever crosses the mind of most users who use Latin characters. Although, there is no reason why the Internet should favor one language or character set over another. Why should the Egyptians or Chinese have to suffer trying to navigate ‘our’ English speaking web when the Chinese in particular have over 300 million Internet users. They should be able to enjoy sites in full Arabic or Chinese, including their domain names.
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December 7th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Well, personally I don’t like the idea. I’m sure it will divide the internet community instead of uniting the world. The internet (as www) has always had the intention f bringin people from all around the world together. Now, the Chinese will stick to their pages and the Arabs to their domains…
Max´s last blog ..Developing Perfect Arabic Pronunciation
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December 7th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I agree that one thing about the internet was the “universal language”, but many countries aren’t too happy that the universal language was English
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January 25th, 2010 at 7:25 am
I think ICANN is taking a step in the right direction. All cultures have the right to speak on the network in their own languages.
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