Edmon Chung, CEO of DotAsia and a member of ICANN working groups believes that Internationalized domain names (IDNs) may debut early next year. He pointed out that the launch of IDNs does not just revolve around technical issues, “It’s also a lot to do with policies or even politics…there are many of these issues in different languages to deal with as well and that’s why it’s taking so long.” Chung added that DotAsia intends to provide multilingual domain names, including Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Thai. For example, the “asia” in “.asia” would not be the English term but the Chinese equivalent, in Chinese characters. [Read full Story]
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The advent of Unicode started a new era in international computing. After that, Internationalized domain names seem to have a great potential for non-roman languages. Varun Aggarawal explains what internationalized domain names (IDNs) mean and what possibilities it has for Indian languages. [Read full story]
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