My Name, My Language, My Internet: IDN Test Goes Live

ICANN launches global test of Internationalized Domain Names

[gpmgroup]

Internet users around the globe can now experiment with their name in their language on their Internet with today’s launch of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers live testing of Internationalized Domain Names in 11 languages.

[icann.org...]

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[HuskyPup]

Wow!

If you want to see it in action go straight to the bottom of this page:

[idn.icann.org...]

[oziman]

Just out of curiousity - anyone know why they chose yiddish? It's not really a language that's used by a surfing public..

[HuskyPup]

anyone know why they chose yiddish?

No idea other than maybe to prove it can be done?

[gpmgroup]

I think it was because, in terms of characters/constructs Hebrew is a subset of Yiddish.