If you speak and write Chinese, you will officially become a full-fledged member of the world's internet community next month, when the Chinese characters in this blog's headline, known up to now as .cn, .hk and .tw respectively, will make their internet debut as top-level domain names.
The agency that manages internet URL names, ICANN or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, announced that the language now spoken by 20% of the world will soon be all you'll need to surf the night away. Up to now, users could almost complete a web or email address with just a Chinese keyboard. Almost. But once the user got to the characters that follow the final dot (.com, .org, .cn, etc), only Latin letters would do.
For the world's English speakers, the web has always been a language-friendly place, where our Latin characters were the basic typographical currency. If you wrote Chinese, or Arabic, or Russian or Hebrew you were something of a second-class citizen.
ICANN has made a big deal about this move, which is part of a larger initiative they call IDNs (they love acronyms), which stands for international domain names. Arabic speakers were the first to benefit from this change earlier this year, and before long non-English writers everywhere will be freed from the tyranny of typing their two-letter country designation at the end of an address in a language other than their own.
"One World, One Internet, Everyone Connected" is the happy slogan invented to make these changes seem to fit some larger, more important context. Many in the Chinese media have wrapped the change in nationalist slogans, heralding it as an important move to protect Chinese culture and heritage, and pointing to it as further evidence of the decline of Western culture and the rise of the East.
Some have even cynically noted that another change announced the same day, the creation of a special top-level domain for pornography (.xxx), received much more news attention globally than did the addition of Chinese characters to the top-level domain club.
The real impact of this change, of course, will be minimal. People in China will access the sites they've always accessed in much the same way. Sites with the .com domain will still require users to type those three characters, just that same way.
Most importantly, though, most web sites are now accessed through embedded links or other methods that don't require users to type an address, so who really cares about URLs anymore? They are quickly becoming the invisible code of information access, rather than a branding platform or an object of pride.
So when the ICANN brass and the nationalist pundits in China, the Middle East and Russia start heradling this as the biggest change in the internet since it was created, well, be skeptical.
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