Gov't to permit Japanese suffix for domain names

Tuesday 11th November, 06:16 AM JST

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Samuraiiki at 10:06 AM JST - 11th November

Always going back instead of moving forward.
RMGTTF at 10:46 AM JST - 11th November

Ey come on, that will help more and more to Japanese integration to the world... Not!
thepro at 10:53 AM JST - 11th November

ummm... why make things more complicated?
Pivot at 11:37 AM JST - 11th November

Well, I can see how this may help some companies to stand out with brand names that otherwise might overlap with others that have the same reading but different Kanji. And if the company's target audience have nothing to do with a market outside of Japan, why bother about them? Why are you lot such negative nancys.
soldave at 11:59 AM JST - 11th November

Have read about this happening in things like Arabic and Chinese. Don't think it's going to be a great idea though. Using different languages for your site addresses is fine, but to use different character encoding...

A nice way of stopping a lot of people visiting your site.
electric2004 at 01:00 PM JST - 11th November

I wonder about the reaction related to German Umlauts.
Triple888 at 09:27 PM JST - 11th November

"Always going back instead of moving forward."

It's the logical thing to do, as if you didn't know, Japanese read and write in, er, Japanese. Only western-imperialistics oppose this move.
JohnBecker at 02:23 AM JST - 12th November

It seems to me that this will just give businesses a reason to have to buy a few more domain names. They won't eliminate their romanji domains.
soldave at 09:39 AM JST - 12th November

Triple888 - but think about it rationally for a second. How many Japanese keyboards and operating systems can type in a western character set with ease? How many Arabic style keyboards / operating systems can do the same? How about Chinese, or Russian? You'll find that most can use English without any troubles. Now switch it the other way around. How many computers in UK, France, India (to move away from the "western imperialists", Saudi Arabia can easily switch to writing in Japanese? The answer is not many due to the different character encoding and language packs that would have to be put onto computers during install.