Etiket: ICANN

The Web has now passed two important demarcation points in its lifespan: September marked the 40th anniversary of the invention of the interlinked computer-based communications networks we now call “the Internet,” and on Wednesday the U.S. government watched as its remaining official authority over the non-profit group that governs Web addresses expired. The U.S. Department…

ICANN’s decision on Friday to allow domain names in non-Latin characters may have been a move to forestall fragmentation of the Internet. “Not introducing international domains would mean that alternate root servers will be set up around the world because the demand is so high,” Tina Dam, senior director for IDNs (international domain names) at…