A Script for Every Surfer

IDNs [Internationalized Domain Names] are starting to get some publicity.  In the past many articles have been misinformed, however articles like A Script for Every Surfer are starting to paint a better picture of the purpose of IDNs and the development that is taking place largely behind closed doors.  It is still yet to be seen how things will shake out regarding IDN.IDN and IDN.ascii (i.e. IDN.com) and IDN ccTlds (i.e. IDN.cn) but regardless if done correctly IDNs will play a large roll in the future of the net.  One thing for sure is that IDNs in latin languages that have the foreign letters on their keyboards have the least amount of hurdles ahead of them.  All they need is further browser support by the end-user which is simply a matter of time as older versions of browsers become obsolete via automatic updates and new PC and mobile purchases.  An example of one of these IDNs is diseño.com with the tilde over the “n”.  This means ‘design’ in Spanish and to give you an idea of how much more popular it is than the only current way of writing it (diseno), all you have to do is view the Google Trends which shows the search popularity on Google. Clearly there are tremendous value in IDNs and their time is not far away from becoming a staple in the future of the internet, which is why we are investing in them.