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Today, ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the non-profit group that oversees domain names) voted to accept domain names in languages which are not based on Latin letters, such as:  Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Yiddish. This means that of the 1.6 billion Internet users worldwide, the 50 percent who use alphabets based on letters other than Latin could have a whole new cyberworld opened up to them.

 

This is amazing, considering that as recent as five years ago, the experts were saying that it couldn’t be done. Applications for the new Internationalized Doman Names (IDNs) will be accepted from the second week of November. However, it may not be all good, though. There are concerns over how people in countries that use the Latin script will be able to access websites with Korean, Hindi or Arabic domain names, for which ICANN does not yet have an answer. Additionally, this could bring phishing and typosquatting to a whole, new level.