Non Latin Web Addresses: How does that sound?

Kaustubh Katdare

Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Oct 14, 2024
ICANN [Internet corporation for assigned names & numbers] is now going to allow website addresses in non-latin script. That means very soon, we'll see website addresses in Hindi, Chinese, Arabic, Russian etc. 😁

Currently, domain names can only be displayed using the Latin alphabet letters A-Z, the digits 0-9 and the hyphen, but in the future countries will be able to display country-code Top Level Domains (cc TLDs) in their native language.

What say you, folks?
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  • Manish Goyal

    Manish Goyal

    @manish-r2Hoep • Oct 30, 2009

    It's great
    I am very anxious to see the first domain in hindi..actually i want...
    infact I am also think about compiler ..that will support programming in hindi language
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  • durga ch

    durga ch

    @durga-TpX3gO • Oct 30, 2009

    happy to see internet literature going away from Latin base, but umm.. I am doubtful about contents. I mean, when i search for a content and its on some other language page , then how am I going to ever come to know about it?is it not limiting the availablity of knowledge?

    is it only the domain names which would be non english or the page contents as well?
    if page contents are as well non english! oh boy! that would be sad ( I already soemtimes get frustated when i see the material what I search for is in some foriegn language)
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  • safwan

    safwan

    @safwan-NH7W5Y • Oct 30, 2009

    THEIR might be confusion like two web having same name one in (for eg.) english and other in hindi.
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  • Manish Goyal

    Manish Goyal

    @manish-r2Hoep • Oct 30, 2009

    hey what kind of confusion safan
    can you please tell me any word ie lany word which will be same as in Hindi?
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  • yadavundertaker mohit

    yadavundertaker mohit

    @yadavundertaker-0p3HBs • Oct 30, 2009

    it will be great to have web addresses in hindi...
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  • MaRo

    MaRo

    @maro-Ce3knx • Oct 30, 2009

    Actually it's on for years ago but not popular, there's already websites domains in Arabic, Japanese & Russian as parked domains not actual websites & guess how much they earn!
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  • Mahesh Dahale

    Mahesh Dahale

    @mahesh-E2tZ3t • Oct 30, 2009

    It will be the biggest trouble,
    having keyboards to type in non-English languages.
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  • Manish Goyal

    Manish Goyal

    @manish-r2Hoep • Oct 30, 2009

    mahesh_dahale
    It will be the biggest trouble,
    having keyboards to type in non-English languages.
    what a coincidence..I was also about to ask same thing today..😛
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  • MaRo

    MaRo

    @maro-Ce3knx • Oct 31, 2009

    Guys, I think you'd have known there's something called Unicode it's in your PCs you can use it to write virtually any language.
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