ICANN Approves First Set of New gTLDs

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 18, 2013 @04:54AM 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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Re:Wow, an amazing co-incidence by Chris+Mattern · 2013-07-18 07:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

Well, what's the real impetus?
Does having a front-page article shit all over itself because the non-ASCII characters that are the entire point of the article decide not to render count?