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Clotho
4th November 2010, 07:45 AM
ICANN Nears Expansion of Domain Names - PCWorld (http://www.pcworld.com/article/209620/ICANN_Nears_Expansion_of_Domain_Names.html?tk=rss_news)

Wolak is intrigued by the idea of internationalized domain names (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/103009-icann-approves-internationalized-domain.html), which are in foreign language characters rather than their ASCII approximations.
"One of the new TLDs that we at .org are very interested in is a fully internationalized domain name," Wolak says. "We're interested in launching a few variations of.org in different character strips. That's something that's new and different and doesn't have a long history or entrenched competitors. And it opens up the domain space to new languages."


Also:

ICANN set to open top-level domain floodgates - ars technica (http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/11/icann-to-open-top-level-domain-floodgates.ars)

Rubber Duck
4th November 2010, 08:11 AM
Just more dull, unimaginative and inexplicably anglo-centric drivel.

ICANN Nears Expansion of Domain Names - PCWorld (http://www.pcworld.com/article/209620/ICANN_Nears_Expansion_of_Domain_Names.html?tk=rss_news)

Wolak is intrigued by the idea of internationalized domain names (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/103009-icann-approves-internationalized-domain.html), which are in foreign language characters rather than their ASCII approximations.
"One of the new TLDs that we at .org are very interested in is a fully internationalized domain name," Wolak says. "We're interested in launching a few variations of.org in different character strips. That's something that's new and different and doesn't have a long history or entrenched competitors. And it opens up the domain space to new languages."


Also:

ICANN set to open top-level domain floodgates - ars technica (http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/11/icann-to-open-top-level-domain-floodgates.ars)