Summary Box: Internet addresses in Arabic activated; first with non-Latin characters

Summary Box: First non-Latin Internet domains

THE MILESTONE: For the first time since the Internet domain name system was created in the 1980s, suffixes in non-Latin characters are possible.

THE FIRST ONES: Domain names in Arabic for Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

THE CHANGE: Until now, websites had to end their addresses with “.com” or another string using Latin characters. Registration is opening soon for those sites to use the Arabic suffixes.