Taking Web Domains Global - by ABC News

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[ABC News - Nov. 22, 2005 ]

The Business of Life: Taking Web Domains Global
World Businesses and Internet Users Seek Non-English Domains
By ANICK JESDANUN
Nov. 22, 2005 — - Had the Internet been invented in China, you'd need some fluency in Chinese to type Web addresses. But as a U.S. invention, the Internet's lingua franca is English.

The world is losing its patience with that state of affairs.

People around the world already have keyboards, software and Web sites in their own languages. Now they want Internet domain names, too, but the Internet's key oversight agency allows that only in limited circumstances. [click the url to continue]

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Ps. ABC News 註明 有 CopyRight, 我不敢 全文轉貼

[jensen]

引用其中一段敘述...
『"When I see an interesting advertisement on the train, I want to go back to its Web site later, but I usually forget the (address) when it's only in English," said Motoyuki Fujiwara, a consumer electronics marketing manager in Tokyo.』
不能在網址列直接使用母語，我想這正是非英語系國家網友共同的痛...
也許透過IDN未來將看得到中文PPC的出現^^""

[jensen]

透過這篇報導，似乎也嗅出IDN的遠景了
真是為B大及早已投入IDN的各位大大感到高興！