What non-Latin domain name will bring: Domain registration challenges

In the future, the Internet can register domain names in non-Latin letters such as Chinese, Arabic and Korean. Internet name and number distribution company (ICANN) The decision of 30th aroused widespread concern.　　What impact will this decision have on the IT community and netizens? The Internet may be more popular. ICANN's decision means that people can enter a Web site for the first time in their native language, without having to include Latin letters. "This is just the beginning, but it is indeed an important step towards diversifying the Internet," ICANN chief executive Beckstrom said in a statement.　　By doing so, the vast majority of users in Asia, the Middle East and Russia can visit the Internet more easily, making them a step closer to the Internet. It is reported that at present, more than half of the world's 1.6 billion netizens use the non-Latin text, so this change is of great significance.　　By then, even if you do not know the Latin alphabet, users can use their own language easy to surf the internet, the number of global Internet users is likely to increase significantly. However, some reservations were expressed. Because the number of Internet users is more dependent on PC penetration and community broadband network than the need to enter the Latin alphabet URL.　　In addition, some netizens always believe that it is easier to enter the Latin alphabet than to enter other text. Domain name repeat rate will be greatly reduced the network domain name was born in the 1980s. The domain name composition was previously limited to 26 Latin letters, 10 Arabic numerals, and a hyphen.　　However, different languages, the same pronunciation and sometimes the content is different, so only in the Latin alphabet domain name has obvious defects, including domain name repetition rate is too high. With non-Latin domain name, undoubtedly make the Internet more diversity, domain name repetition rate will be greatly reduced. For example, the Chinese name "Zhang Heng" and "Heng" are different, but there is no difference in Latin alphabet spelling.　　Enabling the Chinese domain name will make the domain name more accurate and more diverse. Domain name registration Challenges for some organizations and enterprises, the domain name is "Online trademark", however, "online trademark" "Registration" is far more simple than the registration of genuine trademark procedures, some enterprises and individuals to use this "loophole", a large number of well-known enterprises and their brand name.　　Some experts worry that the internet is likely to have a new rush of registration after allowing the use of non-Latin domain names. It is true that in some cases intellectual property law may help some companies or institutions protect a domain name, and ICANN reserves the right to consider rejecting a domain name for "moral or public order".　　But the current domain name registration management mechanism can cope with the possible new round of rush to rush, accurate identification of registration applications, is a matter of concern.　　In addition, network security experts are also concerned about the opening of a variety of words registered domain name, or will further increase the fight against hackers and other cyber-crime difficulties. News link network domain name was born in the 1980s.　　The domain name composition was previously limited to 26 Latin letters, 10 Arabic numerals, and a hyphen. The Internet domain name is composed of 2 or more words, the middle is separated by the dotOpen, the last side of the word is called the top-level domain name. At present, the global domain Name system is based on two types of top-level domain names: A class of known generic top-level domain names, mainly including. com and. NET, there are now 21; the other is a generic domain name based on national and regional abbreviations, such as. CN (China) or. FR (France), etc.,　　Each of them corresponds to a country or region that has more than 200 existing. This set of domain name systems is managed by the Internet name and number distribution company (ICANN).　　ICANN30 Day in South Korea Seoul held the 36th Council decision, the Internet in the future can use Chinese, Arabic and Korean and other non-Latin alphabet language registration domain name. ICANN is a non-profit international organization headquartered in the state of California. It manages the world's top domain names because the Internet is based on a program from the U.S. Department of Defense that was later converted to civilian use. The United States has always held the root table of millions of global domain names, and ICANN was founded in October 1998 by the US Department of Commerce. (according to Xinhua)