The Internet is now different (but you didn’t notice)

June 26, 2010

Marketing.fm

A huge change happened to the Internet last month, and I bet you didn’t notice.

…one of the biggest events in the history of the Internet took place; non-Latin top-level domains went live in the DNS root zone. In plain English, you can now type the whole of a domain name in Arabic script. Not just the left of the dot (as in dot org) but the right of it, too. The three new top-level domains are السعودية. (“Al-Saudiah”), امارات. ( “Emarat”) and مصر. (“Misr”). They are country code names in Arabic for Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt.

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This is obviously a huge change that will have impact across the web.  The interesting part is that most people won’t notice.

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