30 March, 2008

Domain names in Arabic soon online

"The UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) said it is co-hosting the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Regional Meeting in cooperation with ICANN. .........
A key topic to be discussed at the meeting which will take place in Dubai, on 1 - 3 April 2008 is the possibility of getting domain names in Arabic online and making them available to the public......." Source

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i dont think a domain name in arabic will be available within next two years.


http://www.dubai4me.net/index.php?catid=98&set_add_ad_cat=0

Lirun said...

i think it would be a shame to create pockets of communities that were less accessible to global users..

a form of e-segregation..

Kyle said...

What difference would a specific language domain-name make when there are web pages in multiple languages?

Lirun said...

at least a site can be located.. i'll often ask people to translate content.. but its nice to be able to find it..

most of the world wont be able to even type the address letalone read a site that has a url in chinese/arab/hebrew etc..

just another hurdle..

the nice thing about the net is that it serves as a world wide web.. restrictive URLs diminish that aspect..

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