Network Solutions Inc., the largest domain name registrar, is from
today accepting domain name registrations in more than 60 new
languages from Eastern and Western Europe, such as Russian, German,
French, Swedish and Spanish.
Until today, domain names have been available with only English,
Chinese, Japanese and Korean accents and characters. Some foreign
companies had to change their brand names to fit with .com naming
restrictions.
The new names can be purchased from today but, due to testing
requirements, the names cannot be used for a period of two or three
months.
The internet has been criticised for being “too English.”
According to FT.com, 75% of all pages on the web are in English yet
it is the first language of only around 5% of the world’s
population.
