Website Names No Longer As Easy As 'ABC'

For English speakers, it’s easy to take for granted opening a web browser and typing in a URL. But what do people do when their languages have Chinese characters or Vietnamese tone markers? In a further democratization of the internet, more and more websites are popping up with domain names that don’t use the Latin alphabet. Advocates say these internationalized domain names (IDNs) add diversity to cyberspace. “IDNs are important because they complete and support a multi-lingual...

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