Although internet has seen drastic changes since its inception, some of its basic standards have remained the same that is hindering its acceptance in some areas. Internet Domain Names Addressing has always followed the same pattern with Latin based naming and an ending with '.com'(or others). This restriction of domain names hindered the extension of the internet to languages that are not derived from Latin alphabets, thus forcing a large portion of world's population to be aware of the language in order to get access to the internet.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) manages the domain naming standards and has recently approved the usage of non-Latin web addresses. This will enable the countries with non-Latin languages to make domain names using their native alphabets. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are the first three countries whose Arabic IDN ccTLDs has been approved in this program, and we can see the early adopters following this new standard emerging.
This new standard also supports languages which are written from right to left, as is the case with Arabic. Now you can visit http:// مصر . وزارة-الأتصالات .موقع which follows the new standard, however it displays correctly only on Apple's Safari browser for now. According to ICANN, applications from 11 other languages are awaiting approval that includes Chinese, Russian, Thai, Tamil and Sinhalese. TE Data, Vodafone Data and Link Registrar are among the first few companies that have been authorized to sell the Arabic based domain names for now.
This new feature will certainly bring the web content to a large community, and we can see Internet to extend further in the coming years with more content in non-Latin based languages. We expect this change to be adopted by all web browsers soon.
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Commented by: Cheap Web Domain Hosting | Uncategorized | Information about Web Hosting, Web hosting service!, 10 May, 2010
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Commented by: Dayanand, 2 June, 2010
Search for a Domain Name decleartion with 3 steps is more understandable to the learner.
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Commented by: Sean, 7 June, 2010
Thanks for the information. You have condensed a lot of great information into short readable article. This will open up a whole new income stream for domain name sellers.