Features

• ICANN approves domain names we can't type

  By David Coursey | 31 October, 2009 10:46

  This is a bad day for the English language, after ICANN approved non-Latin characters for use in Internet domain names. Having invented the Internet--40 years ago yesterday--the U.S. has given away whatever advantage it offers English-speakers.

• .Eu Web addresses can be written in Cyrillic, Greek letters

  By Paul Meller | 27 June, 2009 03:18

  The .eu TLD (top-level domain name) for Web sites allows non-ASCII characters in its Web addresses, after it opened up the TLD to addresses written in Cyrillic and Greek letters, the European Commission said Friday.