40 years-the biggest technical challenges
According to reports, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board of Directors on the 30th in Seoul, Korea concluded a week-long meeting, a vote can be used by domain name other than English words, governments could begin next month to submit an application to the agency , using a variety of languages new non-Latin domain names. Expected that the new domain can be started early next year, of which the domain name in Chinese and Arabic greatest demand.
The rapid demand for Chinese or Arabic
Non-English-speaking countries could be as early as November 16 to submit their own language website constitutes an application domain ". Com" ". Org" ". Gov", etc. corresponding to the national languages will be. " company "." organization "." government "appears. ICANN is estimated that Internet users the fastest in the early next year, to see in their own language consisting of web address.
The new system put into use, the Chinese Internet users are likely to see similar "Xinhua News Agency. China," Chinese domain names in all.
40 years-the biggest technical challenges
It is reported that this new domain name system has been debated and tested for several years, ICANN officials said it was founded 40 years the Internet's largest technical challenges, they will publish a translation system, responsible for a variety of text into the correct URL, In addition, new web site will allow Internet users do not enter the last 4-6 characters, so each day can reduce 60000000000-100000000000 times keyboard input. Also,Windows 7 announces that it will support chinese domain names in future.
Radback Strom, CEO of ICANN, said: "This is a small step for ICANN, but it is using non-Latin characters in a big half-human, such as Asia and Africa, and throughout the rest of the world speaks Arabic, Chinese and Korean areas." As everyone knows, 80 years since the last century, since the vast majority of Web site domain names are in the 26 English letters, 10 numerals and "-" symbol as a basis. This means that users do not understand English, at least we should learn 26 English letters, Chinese or Arabic before they can surf websites. Now, there are a limited number of search sites can help Internet users find Web sites or log on they want to go, but they can hardly satisfy the demand. Experts believe that the Internet is limited to the Latin alphabet from the shackles of web site will greatly contribute to non-Latin languages, the national popularity of the Internet and use, reducing the gap between the country with the Latin alphabet languages.
