7526 0 3 econsultancy_xml <p>Domain names are currently limited to letters in the English alphabet, numbers and a hyphen.</p> <p>But ICANN members will discuss issues around allowing more characters in to the system - a move which would open the way to Arabic, Greek and Chinese, for example, lettering in domain names.</p> <p>France, in particular, is likely to be in favour of introducing its accented characters.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2007-06-25-new-domains_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip">AP reports</a> engineers are due to embark on technical tests to ascertain whether such a system would actually work.</p> <p>Separate discussions are due to be held on regulations governing addition of new domain name suffixes to the internet network.</p> <p>Previous such debates have heard calls for top-level domin names including .xxx and .post to be created.</p> <p>A glut of sessions has been tabled for delegates in San Juan, where proceedings began Saturday and will continue to Friday.</p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph>Domain names are currently limited to letters in the English alphabet, numbers and a hyphen.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>But ICANN members will discuss issues around allowing more characters in to the system - a move which would open the way to Arabic, Greek and Chinese, for example, lettering in domain names.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>France, in particular, is likely to be in favour of introducing its accented characters.</Paragraph> <Paragraph> <Link URL="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2007-06-25-new-domains_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip" Window="New">AP reports</Link> engineers are due to embark on technical tests to ascertain whether such a system would actually work.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>Separate discussions are due to be held on regulations governing addition of new domain name suffixes to the internet network.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>Previous such debates have heard calls for top-level domin names including .xxx and .post to be created.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>A glut of sessions has been tabled for delegates in San Juan, where proceedings began Saturday and will continue to Friday.</Paragraph> </FormattedContent> 2007-06-26T12:39:00+01:00 0 1 econsultancy_xml <p> <strong>Overseas businesses may soon be able to register domain names with foreign characters.</strong> </p> <p>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (<a href="http://www.icann.org/">ICANN</a>) is <a href="http://sanjuan2007.icann.org/">meeting in Puerto Rico this week</a> to discuss allowing characters with accents or in entirely different scripts to be added to the internet system.</p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph> <Emphasis>Overseas businesses may soon be able to register domain names with foreign characters.</Emphasis> </Paragraph> <Paragraph>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (<Link URL="http://www.icann.org/" Window="New">ICANN</Link>) is <Link URL="http://sanjuan2007.icann.org/" Window="New">meeting in Puerto Rico this week</Link> to discuss allowing characters with accents or in entirely different scripts to be added to the internet system.</Paragraph> </FormattedContent> false 1412 363661 International domains on ICANN agenda false 2007-06-26T13:02:00+01:00 international-domains-on-icann-agenda 2009-04-30T01:42:20+01:00 2009-04-30T01:42:20+01:00 241