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ICANN Approves First Set of New gTLDs

Posted by timothy on from the land-office-business dept.

hypnosec writes "ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved the first set of global Top Level Domains (gTLDs) and surprisingly all four are non-English words including . ("Web" in Arabic); . ("Game" in Chinese); . ("Online" in Russian); and . ("Web site" in Russian). Approval of four non-English words can be considered as a milestone and this approval marks "the first time that people will be able to access and type in a website address for generic Top-Level Domains in their native language.""

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  1. Wow, an amazing co-incidence by jez9999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    surprisingly all four are non-English words including . ("Web" in Arabic); . ("Game" in Chinese); . ("Online" in Russian); and . ("Web site" in Russian).

    That's an amazing co-incidence that all those languages use a mere full stop to mean different things!

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    1. Re:Wow, an amazing co-incidence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Since Slashdot sees fit to block those languages, I think I'll take their cue and add Arabic, Russian, and Chinese language urls to my spam filter :)

      Won't adding "." to your URL filter block everything?

  2. If they wanted it by Sparticus789 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the world wanted to have control over the internet naming schemes, they should have spent the time, money, and effort to INVENT the internet.

    'Murica!

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  3. I'd like U+1F4A9 please by water-and-sewer · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, if unicode characters are now a legitimate part of website names, I'd like to register a new domain:

    http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm

    Imagine all the fun I could have with it: microsoft.pile-of-poo, oracle.pile-of-poo, mostgovernmentrepresentatives.pile-of-poo and so on. It would make blogging so much more satisfying. Who wants to be a dot-com anymore? So 90s. Be poop instead!

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  4. Not Quite... by iCEBaLM · · Score: 4, Funny

    "the first time that people will be able to access and type in a website address for generic Top-Level Domains in their native language."

    My native language is english, I've been able to do this for a long time.