International Domain Names are On the Way
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announced that website domain owners will have the chance to register their domain names in non-Latin characters. This will give the chance to have domain names in their own language to nearly 50% of the world wide web users, who use non-Latin character based languages.
What would be the benefits ?
Well, this in the first place will let non-Latin based users use their own language in the domain names. That sounds good in human rights wise. It will also increase the resources and add more to the expansion of the internet. Users number would probably increase in non-Latin languaged countries, too.
What would be the disadvantages ?
Actually, the main question here would be “How a Latin language and keyboard based user will type a non-Latin character to reach such non-Latin domain names?” Well, this would be a problem. There are downloadable non-Latin characters for keyboards but still it would make it hard for a Latin based user to understand and type the correct character with a non-Latin keyboard.
Bottom line is, this looks like a good step for the expansion part, and time will help us to see if it is also a good one for the usability.
