Internet domains in aboriginal languages soon (fwd link)

[William J Poser]

The article about domain names is badly written and misleading. Domain
names have never been required to be in any particular language. The
restriction until now has been on what characters are used to write
them: the letters from a-z, the ten digits, and underscore. This
allowed the use of English and of such other languages as can be
written using these characters, including many indigenous languages.
It prevented the free use of domain names from languages with
non-Roman writing systems or whose alphabets require Roman
letters other than a-z, but allowed the use of the subset of
words of languages using extended Roman alphabets that do not use
letters other than a-z. The change about to take place is that a much
wider range of characters will now be permitted.

In brief, the change about to take place is an expansion of the
set of CHARACTERS permitted in domain names. There has never been
any restriction on the LANGUAGE of domain names.

Bill