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Title: Internet Domain Names Get More Character Post by: HCK on February 05, 2014, 02:00:20 pm Internet Domain Names Get More Character
Tuesday ushered in a series of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that for the first time in Web history, include Arabic, Chinese and Russian characters. The new gTLDs -- which are the suffixes to Web addresses, such as ".com" and ".net" -- were approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. ICANN invited applications for new domain names in 2012, at a cost of $185,000 a pop. Source: Internet Domain Names Get More Character (http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/79911.html) |