The internet is set for the biggest single change in its 40 year history: ICANN, the non-profit organisation that governs domain names, is considering the move to allow website domain names (the actual name of the site) to be available in non-Latin script. This will open up the internet to a huge global market that was hitherto untapped and allow the emergence of new websites whose monikers could use non-Latin letters such as Japanese, Arabic, Korean, or Thai.
I definitely hope this move is accepted as it is about time that other languages were recognised in that address bar. As well as the obvious reasons that will make the internet a lot more accessible for non-English speakers and allow people to own or visit a website that is named in their own language (which I think is only fair), it is also true that it is necessary to expand the possible names for websites. After all, virtually every combination of english words you can think of has already been taken (albeit more often than not by those detestable portal squatters), so the obvious next step is to open it up to more languages.
I for one am all for it. Read the AP Article
