The expansion of top-level domains on the Internet will end reliance on the Roman alphabet, and new contracts mean people will be able to find ".game" in Chinese. July 15, 2013 7:10 AM PDT ICANN, the organization in charge of a major overhaul of Internet addresses, said it's signed agreements that will bring Chinese, Russian, and Arabic domain names to the Net. At its 47th meeting this week, in Durban, South Africa, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced three companies signed registry agreements that will enable them to operate four so-called generic top-level domains (GTLDs). The approval is a step in the controversial expansion the Internet's addressing from a small number of well-known top-level domains such as .com to many, many more. A total of 1,092 applications have passed ICANN's approval process so far. Those with brand names to protect have objected to the GTLD expansion, saying it raises expensive trademark protection issues. But it's easy to see why others would like one part of the GTLD expansion, a way to offer Web addresses in people's native languages that don't use Roman-alphabet characters. ICANN announced Monday steps to make that internationalization real. The three companies approved to operate the registries are as follows: • International Domain Registry will operate a domain with the Arabic word for "Web" or "network." • Core Association will operate two domains, one with the Russian word for "online" and another with the Russian word for "Web site." • Spring Fields will operate a registry with the Chinese word for "game." Related stories Pinterest goes to battle over Amazon domain play Google might open up certain top-level domains to the public Book publishers blast Amazon's plan to control domain names ICANN's next decision: Deleting the dot from new domains? "We can see the last mile before the first new TLD is activated in the Internet's root," said ICANN Chief Executive Fadi Chehade in a statement. In the overall GTLD expansion plan, some new domains, such as .canon, are closely affiliated to one particular organization and won't be available for anyone to use. But others, such as .music, potentially could be used by anyone who pays the registry to use the name. Organizations called registries operate the computer infrastructure that make a domain possible, and ICANN is working through conflicts where multiple parties want to run the same domain. Some are moving aggressively to control some of the new real estate: Google has applied to be a registry for 101 new domains, including .you, .free and .play, and Amazon applied to run 76, including .video, .book, and .app.

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The expansion of top-level domains on the Internet will end reliance on the Roman alphabet, and new contracts mean people will be able to find ".game" in Chinese. July 15, 2013 7:10 AM PDT ICANN, the organization in charge of a major overhaul of Internet addresses, said it's signed agreements that will bring Chinese, Russian, and Arabic domain names to the Net. At its 47th meeting this week, in Durban, South Africa, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced three companies signed registry agreements that will enable them to operate four so-called generic top-level domains (GTLDs). The approval is a step in the controversial expansion the Internet's addressing from a small number of well-known top-level domains such as .com to many, many more. A total of 1,092 applications have passed ICANN's approval process so far. Those with brand names to protect have objected to the GTLD expansion, saying it raises expensive trademark protection issues. But it's easy to see why others would like one part of the GTLD expansion, a way to offer Web addresses in people's native languages that don't use Roman-alphabet characters. ICANN announced Monday steps to make that internationalization real. The three companies approved to operate the registries are as follows: • International Domain Registry will operate a domain with the Arabic word for "Web" or "network." • Core Association will operate two domains, one with the Russian word for "online" and another with the Russian word for "Web site." • Spring Fields will operate a registry with the Chinese word for "game." Related stories Pinterest goes to battle over Amazon domain play Google might open up certain top-level domains to the public Book publishers blast Amazon's plan to control domain names ICANN's next decision: Deleting the dot from new domains? "We can see the last mile before the first new TLD is activated in the Internet's root," said ICANN Chief Executive Fadi Chehade in a statement. In the overall GTLD expansion plan, some new domains, such as .canon, are closely affiliated to one particular organization and won't be available for anyone to use. But others, such as .music, potentially could be used by anyone who pays the registry to use the name. Organizations called registries operate the computer infrastructure that make a domain possible, and ICANN is working through conflicts where multiple parties want to run the same domain. Some are moving aggressively to control some of the new real estate: Google has applied to be a registry for 101 new domains, including .you, .free and .play, and Amazon applied to run 76, including .video, .book, and .app.

The expansion of top-level domains on the Internet will end reliance on the Roman alphabet, and new contracts mean people will be able to find ".game" in Chinese. July 15, 2013 7:10 AM PDT ICANN, the organization in charge of a major overhaul of Internet addresses, said it's signed agreements that will bring Chinese, Russian, and Arabic domain names to the Net. At its 47th meeting this week, in Durban, South Africa, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced three companies signed registry agreements that will enable them to operate four so-called generic top-level domains (GTLDs). The approval is a step in the controversial expansion the Internet's addressing from a small number of well-known top-level domains such as .com to many, many more. A total of 1,092 applications have passed ICANN's approval process so far. Those with brand names to protect have objected to the GTLD expansion, saying it raises expensive trademark protection issues. But it's easy to see why others would like one part of the GTLD expansion, a way to offer Web addresses in people's native languages that don't use Roman-alphabet characters. ICANN announced Monday steps to make that internationalization real. The three companies approved to operate the registries are as follows: • International Domain Registry will operate a domain with the Arabic word for "Web" or "network." • Core Association will operate two domains, one with the Russian word for "online" and another with the Russian word for "Web site." • Spring Fields will operate a registry with the Chinese word for "game." Related stories Pinterest goes to battle over Amazon domain play Google might open up certain top-level domains to the public Book publishers blast Amazon's plan to control domain names ICANN's next decision: Deleting the dot from new domains? "We can see the last mile before the first new TLD is activated in the Internet's root," said ICANN Chief Executive Fadi Chehade in a statement. In the overall GTLD expansion plan, some new domains, such as .canon, are closely affiliated to one particular organization and won't be available for anyone to use. But others, such as .music, potentially could be used by anyone who pays the registry to use the name. Organizations called registries operate the computer infrastructure that make a domain possible, and ICANN is working through conflicts where multiple parties want to run the same domain. Some are moving aggressively to control some of the new real estate: Google has applied to be a registry for 101 new domains, including .you, .free and .play, and Amazon applied to run 76, including .video, .book, and .app.

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The expansion of top-level domains on the Internet will end reliance on the Roman alphabet, and new contracts mean people will be able to find ".game" in Chinese.

July 15, 2013 7:10 AM PDT

ICANN, the organization in charge of a major overhaul of Internet addresses, said it's signed agreements that will bring Chinese, Russian, and Arabic domain names to the Net.

At its 47th meeting this week, in Durban, South Africa, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced three companies signed registry agreements that will enable them to operate four so-called generic top-level domains (GTLDs). The approval is a step in the controversial expansion the Internet's addressing from a small number of well-known top-level domains such as .com to many, many more. A total of 1,092 applications have passed ICANN's approval process so far.

Those with brand names to protect have objected to the GTLD expansion, saying it raises expensive trademark protection issues. But it's easy to see why others would like one part of the GTLD expansion, a way to offer Web addresses in people's native languages that don't use Roman-alphabet characters.

ICANN announced Monday steps to make that internationalization real. The three companies approved to operate the registries are as follows:

• International Domain Registry will operate a domain with the Arabic word for "Web" or "network."

• Core Association will operate two domains, one with the Russian word for "online" and another with the Russian word for "Web site."

• Spring Fields will operate a registry with the Chinese word for "game."