The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is considering new domain suffixes that even include the possibility of non-English characters, according to a report by Yahoo. Paul Twomey, ICANN's chief executive expects a policy report or two to be presented before consideration will be taken. Proponents say that even though they are non-English speaking they must enter English characters into suffixes to access the internet.
SEO Metro may be partial as we are primarily English speaking but here is the bottomline: the majority of the internet is English speaking as is the business world. Why compromise a universal internet language and World Language, regardless if it is English.
Several questions are being poised at the ICANN Puerto Rico Conference:
ICANN: Keep the internet English Speaking, the universal language.
SEO Metro may be partial as we are primarily English speaking but here is the bottomline: the majority of the internet is English speaking as is the business world. Why compromise a universal internet language and World Language, regardless if it is English.
Several questions are being poised at the ICANN Puerto Rico Conference:
- Who will get the new names, China, Korea, etc.
- Will non-English scripts disrupt emails and the ability to surf the internet.
- Discussion on adding addition English suffixes, the third discussion of its kind and first since the creation of the suffixes.
- Applicants would go through a review phase where anyone could protest due to racial conflicts, trademark conflicts, etc.
- If no objections are raised then the suffix would be approve within three months while objections to a suffix would put the proposed suffix under further review.
ICANN: Keep the internet English Speaking, the universal language.
