Testing level 1 domain names using 11 languages

ICANN International Domain Management Organization on October 15 tested an entirely new international domain name system (IDN), accepting the use of signing of 11 different languages ​​in domain name registration. level 1.

The current level 1 domain system only accepts alphabetic characters from A to Z and does not accept the alphabet of other languages. The problem will completely change with the new international domain name system. For example, a website entirely in Japanese will use Japanese to register domain names. The '.com' or '.net' domain extension is still preserved.

This test is the first step in an attempt to remove barriers that require the use of the Roman or English alphabet in domain registration and allow Internet users to browse the web in their own language.

The domain name used for the testing process is the http://www.example.net domain name. Starting yesterday, users of 11 languages, including Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil, can access the example.test domain name by itself. his language.

Specifically, Japanese people will access the domain name above by entering the word 'example' in Japanese and adding the '.net' extension. The aforementioned selected languages ​​are the languages ​​used in countries with particular interest in testing international language acceptance applications.

" Users will be able to use their own language to register domain names when this IDN system is put into use in the near future ," said Paul Twomey, ICANN President and CEO. . ' This will be one of the biggest changes of the Internet since this network was born .'

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