Care Urged With Language Domain Names

November 1st, 2006 in Technology / Internet
Care Urged With Language Domain Names (AP)

Journalists work on computers during the the first Internet Governance Forum, a global summit that opened at this resort near Athens on Monday, Oct. 30, 2006. Some 1,200 people are attending the Athens forum, which was opened by Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis. Asia will drive a massive online expansion by the end of the decade, helped by computer sharing and emerging cellular phone technology, the U.N.'s top Internet official predicted. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

(AP) -- The organization that oversees global Internet functions warned Wednesday that a mistake in a creating more Web addresses using non-Latin letters could "permanently break the Internet."

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