Putting the accent on domains – IDN ICANN LA

By Michele Neylon on October 29, 2007 in Events, icann

One of the main theme’s at the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles, California, is IDN – internationalised domain names.
IDN has been a topic of much interest, discussion and debate for the last few years as currently you cannot use non-ascii characters in domain names. While that may not be an issue for an English speaker it is a problem for speakers of other languages who use other character sets.
To get an idea of what is possible have a look at the examples on the ICANN LA site.

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