Domain name localization applications in four countries were approved

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January 23 News, according to foreign media reports, the Internet name and digital address distribution Agency (ICANN) has tentatively approved Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates four countries can use the local language to write Internet domain names.

Since the creation of the Internet in 1980, Internet domain names are limited to 26 English letters and 10 digits and hyphens. With the development of technology, in the Internet address has appeared in other countries, but in the domain name suffix is still limited to the above 37 characters.

January 21, the Internet name and digital address distribution Agency (ICANN) said that in the middle of this year it would allow the use of Cyrillic or Arabic-language URLs, including domain names, to appear. String URL requests in other languages are currently under consideration.

This also indicates that users who use Russian and Arabic can access the Web page without having to type in an English letter URL. Although it is now possible to use a search engine to access the corresponding Web page, the Internet address of the home page of the national company is still required to use the English alphabet. This restriction will no longer exist when the domain name of each country is localized.

Currently, internet users in these four countries still need to use English letters for their e-mail addresses, but as Internet technology improves e-mail application standards, e-mail applications gradually recognize the Cyrillic and Arabic domain names.

After a year of discussion and testing, the Internet name and digital address distribution agency has initially adopted four countries in Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to write Internet addresses including domain names in local languages. With the increasing number of Internet users around the world, the need for localization of Internet addresses is also gradually improving, and in the future, there will be more language types of Internet addresses including domain names.

Tina Dam, a senior director of the Internet name and digital address distribution agency, Tina Daim that there are already some countries where Internet sites are already using non-English domain names and only use English letters in the suffix section. But for the four countries of Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, no non-English-language Internet sites have been available. This is confusing to the three countries that use the Arabic language, because Arabic is written from right to left, while English is written from left to right. For Russian users, the Cyrillic and English letters look extremely similar, and the presence of Russian and English in the same Internet address can cause some confusion.

Now these four countries formally request Internet name and digital address assignment agencies to use the Cyrillic or Arabic domain name suffix, and get through. Now the Internet name and digital address distribution agency employees must be convinced that the localization of the domain name will not cause the corresponding Internet chaos. At present, these four countries can use the domain name of the new application or the original English domain name.

It is reported that the Internet name and digital address distribution agencies currently have 16 national domain name localization applications (including 8 different languages. The Internet name and digital address distribution agency has not disclosed any other details about the type of language that is about to be applied next to the domain name localization.