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Multilingual domain names are officially confirmed

In the ongoing ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – the organization for purposes of names and addresses on the Internet) annual conference in Seoul confirmed expectations regarding the approval of regulator plans to introduce support for non-Latin addresses of the Internet – October 30 for a positive decision to vote for all 15 participants of the meeting. Thus, more than half of the 1.6 billion web users will be able to use characters from languages other than Latin alphabets. This is the most significant change in the life of the World Wide Web since its inception. The first international domain names (Internationalised Domain Name, IDN) can appear as early as next year. As experts explain, the problems with the transition should not be, because the relevant technologies are tested for about two years.

Key changes will be made to the system of domain names (Domain Name System, DNS) that translates symbolic names to numeric IP-address. As the head of ICANN Phentermine Rod (Rod Beckstrom), “a small step for ICANN, but one big half of humanity, which uses non-Latin alphabets, such as Korean, Chinese, Arabic and others.” In some countries, already under way to enable users to enter addresses in their own languages, but outside the international standards. This applies to China and Thailand. ICANN also intends to create a universal transfer system, which will support any language anywhere in the world. As top-level domain (top level domains, TLD), their changes affect only partially. They affect regional domains like. Ru, but common. Com,. Net and others will have to dial in the form of the usual characters.

Materials on the topic:

– Nelatinskie domain names will approve this week;

– ICANN will get its independence?;

– RF domain can be registered in the following year.

• www.icann.org