Net gets set for language changes
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The internet is about to undergo a major change. For the first time non-Latin characters will be available for domain names.
“The IDN [International Domain Names] program will encompass close to one hundred thousand characters, opening up the internet to billions of potential users around the globe,” said Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).
The regulator has described the introduction of IDNs as the “biggest change” to the net “since it was invented 40 years ago”.
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