ICANN, the private body in charge of overseeing the foundations of the Internet has voted in favor of allowing characters other than the Roman alphabet for websites, including traditional and simplified Chinese characters, Russian Cyrillic, Korean Hangul and Hebrew among 16 alphabets.
For the time being however, the changes will only be limited to domains run by national governments such ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by DarkJello: 40% are run by governments? That seems absurd.
It means 40% of the domains are registered to sites enging in .us, .uk, .ca, .tv, etc. These are all officially controlled by their respective countries. So if a site ends in .uk, then the UK has complete control over its regulation.
