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ICANN Approves Internationalized Chinese Domain Names

Posted by timothy on from the beats-nationalized-any-day dept.

philalethiac writes "Millions of Chinese language users will soon be able to access the Internet using Chinese script following a decision today by ICANN's Board of Directors to approve a set of Chinese language internationalized domain names."

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  1. ICANN speak Chinese but Slashdot can't by KWTm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess, until Slashdot enables the UTF character set like everyone else has for the past decade or so,

    1. There will be some domain names that we can't link to on Slashdot
    2. No one will get my First Post joke.

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  2. Time to revisit oldschool phishing attacks by Mattpw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With all the non latin address character sets being approved I imagine there is a world of new opportunities which completely void all the "inspect the address bar" education which was pushed on the general public for so many years. ICANN has managed to turn the net into a pretty much anything goes place, almost every major company is practically extorted into buying the new extension flavour of the month to prevent spammers and fraudsters sending seemingly legitimate email and the general public is left completely confused with no guiding address principals.

  3. Re:compromise idea to prevent regional isolation by _merlin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    However, my biggest concern is that the use of non-ascii characters in domain names breaks the whole International nature of the web

    Requiring everything to be ASCII breaks with the whole international nature of the web by forcing everyone to use English alphabet characters.