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Icann tests global domain names

News The internet currently runs on an Ascii system with 26 letters of the alphabet, 10 numerals and a hyphen. Earlier this month the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry announced the creation of a new set of domain names - dot-cn, dot-com and dot... [17 Mar 2006]

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Asian characters take naming to a new domain

News Domain name registrars are now accepting names with Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters which means web addresses, currently limited to the ASCII set of 37 characters, now have over 40,000 characters available. [13 Nov 2000]