ICANN calls on South Africa to adopt non-ASCII characters in domains and apply for new TLDs

Jan

Who's the Boss?
Staff member
Joined
May 24, 2010
Messages
13,584
Reaction score
11,250
Location
The Rabbit Hole
South Africa could soon get domains like .bathong and .sê

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has launched a campaign that could see South Africa get new generic top-level domains.

Currently, South Africa’s top-level domains (TLDs) are limited to its country code domain, .za, and city-based domains like .joburg, .capetown, and .durban.
 
.sê is a bad idea, since .se is Sweden.
The long tail of websites is already under threat: Cookie content being just one straw. Go ahead ICANN, add domain confusion as another straw. Then act surprised when scammers abuse it.
 
Yes, so those plebs who can't get the accented character will end up at a different web address (if it exists at all)
Genius move from ICANN. But then again, ICANN has proved in recent years to be yet another daft org so far removed from reality
Having just come back from ICANN 78, I can confirm the last bit.
 
No need for special characters. There are many options like .bru,.hoezit,.jouma that we can use.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: Swa
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter