Good News for Internet Users - Website Domain Will be Available in Regional Languages

Good News for Internet Users

Website Domain Will be Available in HINDI, BENGALI & Other Indian Languages Soon

Getting an internet domain name in English is passe, now get ready to have it in Regional Languages. The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the non profit Corporation with the responsibility for Internet's Domain Name (DNS) management worldwide has been on the job to support Domain names and numerous languages spoken in India. Including the 22 Scheduled Languages of the Country

Work is on for nine indian script - Gujarati, Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu. These scripts are expected to cover many different local languages.

ICANN has been working towards building the rules for secure and stable definition of the top level domains for scripts used globally. So that people with no knowledge of english are able to go online and access the websites with the Domain names completely in their Languages. for example one can enter the Domain in hindi to get hindi concept. Instead of typing a domain name in English for this purpose. which is the current practice.

About 52 Per cent of the world population have access to Internet now and ICANN is contributing towards bridging the digital divide.

The ICANN India Head said "Many of the remaining 48 percent are non english speaking people and those who do not have the ability to type in English. The work will allow Domain Names to be available for these people in their Languages"

When asked the searching content in Regional Languages is already possible in google and other search engines. He said the current effort is focused on enabling the Domain namin regional Languages. Which is turn would enable the system to publish local language content being searched.

This work for defining rules for the Domain names for Languages spoken in India is underway with a dedicated commnity based panel. The neo-brahmi generation panel as it is called consist of more than 60 Technical Experts and linguist from india, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Singapore. Where these languages and scripts are used.