UCL Centre for Digital Humanities


What will tomorrow’s Web addresses look like?

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 11:24 PM PDT

ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has received over 1,400 applications for new Web extensions (e.g..apple), over 100 of which are in non-Roman scripts. Rules for the existing names containing a-z, 0-9 and the hyphen are complex enough, but imagine setting up rules for addresses for every letter in every world script! I’m [...]
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