WASHINGTON, GadgetInfo - After six months of preparation and testing, internet addresses using Arabic alphabet finally official. Internet Corporation for Assignment Names and Numbers, ICANN, a nonprofit organization that regulates web address, has approved three-domain addresses in Arabic, each for Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.
"Middle East has only 20 percent internet penetration average and still potential for growth. The users in the region are now easier to access the internet because it can use its own language to the entire domain name," ICANN said in a statement on its website on Wednesday (5 / 5 / 2010).
Arabic alphabet is the first non-Latin letters that could be used for web addresses. Non-Latin letters for web addresses were validated by the ICANN board meeting on October 30, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
Since then, ICANN recorded 21 domain names requests with non-Latin letters which consists of 11 different languages, from the letter of China, Japan, Thailand, Israel, Russia, etc. However, only 13 requests that pass the next step of verification before the validation as of Arabic letters.
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