> domains, so countries can apply for TLDs in their local languages. > That > means there will one day be a .māori (or .maori, which is arguably > more > sensible if you want people to type in your domain name).
So a domain will be located by culture rather than geography? I was under the impression that it was simply an opening up of the word "com" and others to different character sets, which is much less exciting. Luke On 31/10/2009, at 1:01 PM, Douglas Bagnall wrote: > Julian Oliver wrote: > >> .. beginning November, TLD's to follow. >> >> http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091030/ap_on_hi_te/as_tec_internet_names >> http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-30oct09-en.htm >> >> (btw I just registered 微软.com, 苹果.com and 热的汽车.com) > > > No you didn't. According to whois, people have been squatting on the > first two since 2004 and 2000. > > The new thing is the opening up and internationalisation of top level > domains, so countries can apply for TLDs in their local languages. > That > means there will one day be a .māori (or .maori, which is arguably > more > sensible if you want people to type in your domain name). > > > Douglas > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
