Chinese Domain Names

The BBC reports that we may soon be seeing Chinese characters in the address bars of our favorite web browsers.

Web addresses - anything beginning with http:// - are currently restricted to Latin characters. Considering that more than 50% of Internet users speak languages that use non-Latin characters, this domination of Latin based domain names is long due for a change.

There are lots of technical challenges to this proposal, but if all goes well, we should soon be able to use Chinese characters (as well as other scripts) for web addresses.