Tag archive: international domain names

The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on Latin characters in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more inclusive. The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — or ICANN — voted to allow such scripts in so-called domain names at the conclusion of a weeklong meeting in Seoul, South Korea's capital. The decision by… Read More

The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names — or addresses — that can be written in non-Latin script, an official said Monday. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN — the non-profit group that oversees domain names — is holding a meeting this week in Seoul. Domain names are the monikers behind every Web site,… Read More

“Danish security company Secunia posted an alert describing the vulnerability — which affects Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Konqueror — as a “moderately critical” problem. The vulnerability impacts every browser built atop the open-source Geko browser kernel — nearly all except IE — because of a flaw in handling International Domain Names (IDN). Hackers can register domain names with certain… Read More