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ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) finally approved the use of letters to name nonlatin web addresses and Internet domain name. This decision was agreed on Friday (30/10) in a meeting in Seoul, South Korea.

Non-profit institutions that govern intrenet addresses and domains in the world that allow the use of letters Hebrew, Hindi, Korean, Arabic and other letters. Discussion of this is already done for many years and through a long testing process.

This is a small step for ICANN, but it became one big step for half of humanity who use non-Latin characters, such as those in Korea, China, and Arab as well as in Asia, Africa and other parts of the world. It is estimated there are about 1.6 billion people worldwide who use nonlatin letters are.

However, there are restrictions as specified by ICANN to address the letter nonlatin. For now, the domain name is affiliated with the suffix. Com and. Org will not be available in versions nonlatin least until a few years until it was decided who would manage it. In addition, limited letters used 37 characters as a translation of the Latin letters are now used in a web address, which is 26 letters, 10 numbers, and hyphens.

Furthermore, ICANN will open a domain name registration using letters nonlatin began 16 November 2009. Registration is prioritized for domain names associated with the countries concerned. Web addresses and domain names with the letter or Arabic China is expected to begin functioning next year.

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