Will Arabic domain names help censorship, create ‘cyber-ghettos’?
Dec 30th, 2009 | By Nawaat.org | Category: Censorship reporting, Censure, Cyberactivisme, Egypte, English, International, Les Articles, Machrek & Maghreb, News, Revue de Presse, Société, Tech & Blogs, arab world, blogging, internet filtring, language, lybie, web-2.0Back in October, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, began processing requests for domain names in non-Latin scripts such as Arabic.
In theory, this lowers the barrier for lower-income Arabic-speakers who are unfamiliar with the Latin alphabet to get online.
But for now, at least, registration is limited to official government domains, sparking […]


