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Egypt To Apply For First Arabic Domain Name: .MASR

AP | Tarek El-Tablawy | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology

Read More: Icann, Egypt, Technology News, .Masr, Non-Latin Domain Name, Arabic Domain Name, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Tarek Kamel, Technology News

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) -- Egypt will apply for the first Internet domain written in Arabic, its information technology minister said Sunday at a c...

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Media Literacy 101: Losing Our Ability to Listen to the World (in English)

Susan Moeller | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology

Read More: Blogosphere, Arab Media, Bloggers, Icann, Knight Foundation, English, Domain Names, Global Voices, Chinese, America First, Globalization, Official Language, Technology News
Susan Moeller

The decision to allow Web addresses to be written completely in non-Latin alphabets isn't just a huge deal for most of Asia, the Middle East and wide swaths of the rest of the world. It's a huge deal for Americans.

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Chinese, Arabic, Other Non-Latin Scripts Approved For Web Addresses

AP | KELLY OLSEN | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology

Read More: Non-Roman Web Address, Chinese Domain Name, Non-English Addresses, Icann, Non-English Web Addresses, Non-Latin Web Address, Chinese Web Address, Arabic Domain Name, Non-English-Domain-Names, Arabic Web Address, Technology News

SEOUL, South Korea — The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not ...

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Abandoning Internet Oversight

Mark A. Shiffrin and Avi Silberschatz | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology

Read More: Us Department of Commerce, Icann, Internet Security, Obama Administration, Iran, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Internet Oversight, Israel, Internet Regulation, Technology News
Mark A. Shiffrin and Avi Silberschatz

The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced that the United States has agreed to give up oversight of the ICANN, a non-profit organization loosely regulates the protocols of the Internet.

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Internet Set To Add Web Addresses In Non-English Characters

AP | KELLY OLSEN | Posted 10.26.2009 | Technology

Read More: Icann, Japanese Domain Name, Hindi Domain Name, Non-English Domain Names, Korean Web Address, Non-English Addresses, International Domain Names, Arabic Domain Name, Arabic Web Address, Web Addresses in Other Language, Web Pages Not in English, Korean Arab Internet Domain, Technology News

SEOUL, South Korea ? The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of inte...

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ICANN Domain Name Overseer Pressured To Loosen US Ties

GlobalPost | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Cybersquatting, Icann, Russia, Foreign Affairs, Domain Names, Technology, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, China, Advocacy, World News

It is invisible to the millions of people who use the World Wide Web, yet it helps hold the Internet together. Type in any address in your browser's ...

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Dot-Sex Could Be The New Dot-Com

ABC News | Russell Goldman | Posted 07.04.2008 | Business

Read More: What Can I Name My Domain, Dot-Sex, Domain Names, Internet Corp. For Names and Numbers, .Ebay, ICANN, Sex, New Domain Extensions, .Sex, .Xxx, New Domain Names, Business News

Dot-com is so 1990s. The group that oversees the naming of Internet domains approved a measure today that will broadly expand what words can follow th...

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