Internet agency gives preliminary nod to domains for Jordan in Arabic
By APThursday, April 22, 2010
Internet address for Jordan in Arabic gets OK
NEW YORK — Jordan is the latest country to win preliminary approval for Internet addresses written entirely in its native script.
Until recently, Internet domain names such as those that end in “.com” have been limited to Latin characters, numerals and the hyphen.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as ICANN, oversees domain names and is in the process of expanding the permitted characters. Jordan’s suffix would be in Arabic.
ICANN already has given preliminary approval to suffixes for eight countries and two territories and launched technical reviews for two others — China and Taiwan. Final approval is expected so that usage of these suffixes could begin as early as this summer.
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