Internet domains no longer only English
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The internet's domain name system underwent a radical overhaul yesterday, when the first fully non-Latin domains went live. Three Arabic-speaking nations went live with versions of their country's domains in Arabic script, after domain overseer ICANN added them to the DNS root servers. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to benefit from the transition to localised scripts. In future, domains in other character sets, such as...
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