November 11, 2002
Multilingual domain names
THE PRESENT Domain Name System is incapable of accepting domain names with non-English language letters. NetSpeak explores attempts to internationalise the domain naming system so that netizens can use it in their own language.
An impact of the widespread acceptance of the Net is the decline in the proportion of netizens who speak English, which has been the Net's language from its very inception. According to the `Internet Economy Indicators' (http://www.internetindicators.com/globalinternet.html), `an English message will not be understood by the growing number of non-English web users, 35 per cent of all users online today".
An impact of the widespread acceptance of the Net is the decline in the proportion of netizens who speak English, which has been the Net's language from its very inception. According to the `Internet Economy Indicators' (http://www.internetindicators.com/globalinternet.html), `an English message will not be understood by the growing number of non-English web users, 35 per cent of all users online today".
