..on Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 04:19:34PM +1300, Luke Duncalfe wrote:
>
>> 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.
AFAIK they get their own new TLD altogether.
Indeed the non-latin TLD is less exciting for us, but not for more than half of
all internet users.
My url was one character too long. Try this:
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-30oct09-en.htm
"Now, ICANN is allowing those same technical tricks to apply to the suffix as
well, allowing the Internet to be truly multilingual.
Many of the estimated 1.5 billion people online use languages such as Chinese,
Thai, Arabic and Japanese, which have writing systems entirely different from
English, French, German, Indonesian, Swahili and others that use Latin
characters.
[...]
Countries can only request one suffix for each of their official languages, and
the suffix must somehow reflect the name of the country or its abbreviation.
Non-Latin versions of ".com" and ".org" won't be permitted for at least a few
more years as ICANN considers broader policy questions such as whether the
incumbent operator of ".com" should automatically get a Chinese version, or
whether that more properly goes to China, as its government insists"
>
> 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_names2
>>> 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
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