Body formed to manage kanji-based domain name for Japan

Tuesday 29th September, 04:40 AM JST

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Airion at 08:42 AM JST - 29th September

Not sure if I like this idea. Hard to call it the World Wide Web if language barriers are put up to accessing sites.
kirakira25 at 09:59 AM JST - 29th September

I thought the same thing, until I realised that anyone who cant read Japanese probably wouldnt be interested in accessing the domain anyway.
Beelzebub at 11:06 AM JST - 29th September

I think there are probably valid reasons for wanting to do this. It would reduce traffic by cutting down on the number of visitors who log on accidentally, and might also discourage hackers, although most of the hackers who attack Japanese sites are in China, and have no trouble reading kanji.
therealmusashi at 12:19 PM JST - 29th September

Dividing the Internet even further is always a bad idea. The only people who really want this are those selling domain names.

Standards exist for a reason. It's bad enough that most of the J-internet is using Shift-JIS encoding instead of the correct unicode.