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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Actually a very dumb idea by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-18 05:03 · Score: 0, Troll

This means that (A) English, which is the de facto world language, is hereby attacked by ICANN.
(B) everyone who does not speak Chinese, Russian etc will have to spend money to adapt because they'll have to buy yet more domains and yet more interpreters.