Internet Domain Names to be Available in Non-English

The Internet's main oversight body, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has said that Internet domain names in languages beyond the English language will become available in the near future. Currently, the computers that handle on line addresses recognize only the 26 letters of the English alphabet, 10 numerals and a hyphen. The new standards will allow the world's computers to recognize other languages, including Japanese, Arabic and Chinese, among others. The new incoming executive of ICANN, Australian Paul Twomey, pledged that he would attempt to make the Internet less U.S.-oriented and more inclusive of the rest of the world.

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