This is a bad day for the English language, after ICANN approved non-Latin characters for use in Internet domain names. Having invented the Internet–40 years ago yesterday–the U.S. has given away whatever advantage it offers English-speakers. This was bound to happen after the U.S. recently recanted on its “ownership” of the Internet in a new [...]
October 31, 2009 | Posted in
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Finally, the World Wide Web will live up to its name. The decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that Web sites written in Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and other non-ASCII character sets will be able to have their Internet domain names displayed in their own languages truly makes the Web a global [...]
October 30, 2009 | Posted in
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