Internet set for change with non-English addresses

Monday 26th October, 02:25 PM JST

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Nessie at 04:33 PM JST - 27th October

What Japanese domain names would be good ones to snag? ヤホー.com

Maybe if you like yodelling.

Otherwise, ヤフー
gogogo at 04:33 PM JST - 27th October

You have been able to write domain names in Japanese for a about 3-4 years, they must be talking about some sort of change to the system not the fact you can use it.
SebastianFlyte at 04:34 PM JST - 27th October

Will they allow Klingon too!!??
sdf_crew_member at 04:55 PM JST - 27th October

I don't see any problem at all. If a domain is written in a language different from English it's meant to users who know and use this language. The only nuisance probably is email.
ippanjin33 at 06:58 AM JST - 28th October

http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/idn-cctld-implementation-plan-30sep09-en.pdf

The fact that entire Internet addresses will be in non-Latin alphabet is interesting. The websites could then be something like 任天堂.株式会社.日本
TanakaTaro at 02:17 PM JST - 28th October

As Azrael said this is just going to a tool to convert other languages back to alphanumeric characters.

So whether you type in asahi.jp or 朝日.日本 won't matter as it will take you to the same place.

Of course this wouldn't be needed in Japan if more people learnt how to use the url bar with romaji. So many times I've seen people use google to type in 価格.com rather than just type kakaku.com (or even just kakaku) in the url bar.
Yelnats at 03:34 PM JST - 28th October

I am for Klingon
Clotho at 02:22 AM JST - 29th October

What Japanese domain names would be good ones to snag? ヤホー.com　2ちゃんねる.com おいしい鯨.com ？

Registering other peoples trademarks is bad form and will just get the domain taken away from you. Stick to generic terms like:

アート.com フランチャイズ.com 金価格.com or グラフィックデザイナー.com
sf2k at 05:23 AM JST - 29th October

wow as if there isn't enough dead sites already. Good luck finding your site. It's handy that there are so few letters in the Roman alphabet. Note that includes the most common Western languages. Whereas adding thousands of kanji to the issue and claim to be an improvement is pretty funny as this thread shows
sf2k at 05:26 AM JST - 29th October

the written language of Japanese does not lend itself well to Internet domains with so many possibilities leading to confusion. Other languages that are non-Western though that have a more central style however should work out well.
PepinGalarga at 07:12 AM JST - 29th October

i think this is a huge mistake. It will lead to a bum-rush of copyright infringement and domain squatting. If you are illiterate enough to not know a romanized version of the websites name, perhaps you shouldn't BE on the internet...

yes, in Japan the tradition of putting the (***)検索 is extremely annoying. They do it to raise the web ranking of their sites, but to also spare Japanese people from having to type any western characters at all...

This is not an issue of English dominating othr languages, it is about finding ONE standard that everyone apply globally. If now i have to register my own company domain in 30 other languages, my company will go broke!!!!
kawaiiichick at 08:11 AM JST - 29th October

av女優.jp is a good example, and gaijeans welcome too
eigonosensei at 04:48 PM JST - 29th October

Domain names in foreign languages will be hip for awhile, but eventually if the website owners want many more people to view their site they will most likely just change back to english.

I personally would rather have a more international internet than a "globalized" internet.
PepinGalarga at 06:05 PM JST - 31st October

you see what happens... there can only be ONE website, so all these fancy non-romanized domains after all can only point to ONE site!! Even in the case of multi-language websites, they are all integrated into one site. This is rather ridiculous...

Whoever tries out the domain in a while, and then gives it up, faces the danger of a squatter sitting on it or using it to peddle his fake wares.
DocLeod at 04:37 PM JST - 1st November

This should lead to an exponential increase in the number of phishing attacks.

And there may be something off about Wíkipedia.