IDN.IDN is an abbreviation for an

Internationalized domain name An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in non-latin script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Bengali, Chinese ( Mandarin, simplif ...

whose

Top level domain A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in ...

(TLD) is also internationalized, which could be

transliterated Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus ''trans-'' + '' liter-'') in predictable ways, such as Greek → , Cyrillic → , Greek → the digraph , Armenian → or L ...

.com, .net, .org, etc. or be groupings relevant to the language at hand.

Culturally relevant proposals

* Chinese: * Korean: * Japanese: * Russian: * Hebrew: ** שלום.דבר : shalom.dbr (dbr being roots of the verb 'to talk') ** דפנה.שלי : daphne.shli (shli being a preposition 'of me,' for personal homepages, etc.) * Arabic: ** كوم : .com ** نت : .net ** اورج : .org

Concerns and considerations

As this is an issue still being "decided upon," (for many years, apparently) there are many factors to be considered. Here are a few just thrown out to be edited around and made to look pretty. * IDN.COM vs. IDN.IDN, important issue as IDN.COM is already available. * Compatibility *

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* "branching off from the *main* internet" (various POVs) ** Who Owns The Internet ** The UN Resolution from meeting in Tunisia * Localization **

Transliteration Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus ''trans-'' + '' liter-'') in predictable ways, such as Greek → , Cyrillic → , Greek → the digraph , Armenian → or L ...

of COM NET ORG vs. culturally significant TLD names of the languages' own choosing. ** Right-to-left formatted languages such as Arabic and Hebrew

Culturally relevant proposals

Concerns and considerations

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