ICANN Approves Domain Names We Can't Type


	ICANN Approves Domain Names We Can't Type

aklimento

10-31-2009 12:10 AM

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icann, internet governing body, organizing for america, organizing for russia, organizing for my village

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People have the right to organizing on their local communities level - that's the beauty of Worldwide Web - Space of Mind...

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			<SPAN class="image ltmd"><IMG alt="" src="http://images.pcworld.com/news/graphics/167347-domainwars_120x120_original.jpg" /></SPAN>This was bound to happen after the U.S. <A href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/172896/icann_freed_from_us_govt_oversight.html">recently recanted</A> on its "ownership" of the Internet in <A href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/172986/new_icann_agreement_runs_into_criticism.html">a new agreement with ICANN</A>, the Internet's primary governing body. At one level, I am happy that Internet users around the world will soon have domain names in their own character sets.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/181094/icann_approves_domain_names_we_cant_type.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.pcworld.com/img/7F75F98E-18CA-4D56-9303-B4C385C261C7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/181094/icann_approves_domain_names_we_cant_type.html"><P>"The coming introduction of non-Latin characters represents the biggest technical change to the Internet since it was created four decades ago," ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush said in a statement. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/543B4BB6-1CA8-469D-BEB5-578C1381217A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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