Mar 19, 2008 : New Languages Added to ICANN's IDN Wiki

📅 March 19, 2008 -

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: Hebrew and Amharicspeakers now have dedicated wiki pages to share their experiences as a partof the global evaluation of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) being doneby the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

"Since its launchin October 2007, the IDN wiki has helped ICANN and the Internet communitylook at exactly how IDNs operate in the root, and how different software handlesdomain names in characters from different scripts," said Tina Dam, ICANN'sIDN Program Director. "We're hoping that Internet users who understand Hebrewand Amharic will access these wiki pages and share their experiences."

TheIDN wiki was initially based on 11 example.test domains in Arabic, Persian,Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish,Japanese and Tamil. The wiki allows Internet users to establish their ownsubpages with their own names in their own language such as example.test/yourname.

Though the new languages will not be used for translations of example.testin the Internet's root, they will be used at the fourth level (after thetop level "org", the second level "icann", and the third level "idn") so userscan have dedicated wiki pages. These language extensions to the wiki areavailable at http://am.idn.icann.org and http://he.idn.icann.org.

As well, with the Hebrew addition, since there is a .test TLD label in Hebrewscript, an additional address has been assigned in the Hebrew language - http://

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