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Egypt, Saudi Arabia and UAE Get First Non-Latin Domains

by Matthew Zuras on May 6, 2010 at 11:05 AM

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced back in October that it had passed a resolution allowing Web addresses to be written in non-Latin alphabets. Well, you flouters of the Roman script, your day has finally arrived as the first of those sites have just gone live. While some non-Latin characters were previously allowed in Web addresses, they always had to ...
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Web Addresses to Include Chinese and Arabic Characters

by Caleb Johnson on October 26, 2009 at 02:00 PM

Despite what some might say, it's not often that an opportunity comes along to change the lives of billions of people. But that's just what the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will do by changing the rules of Web addresses, shaking up the Internet like never before. According to the Daily Mail, the ICANN board will pass a resolution this Friday that will allow ...
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Aaron Sorkin ('West Wing') Discusses Facebook Movie

by Caleb Johnson on August 12, 2009 at 04:58 PM

It's a story for the ages, or at least that's what Aaron Sorkin thinks. Sorkin, the brain behind 'The West Wing,' has jumped on board to write the screenplay for the upcoming Facebook movie -- the tale of a Harvard student who becomes an Internet billionaire. Believe it or not, Sorkin told film site Making Of that he's never agreed to work on a project so quickly. After reading only three pages ...
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