A simple tweak could unlock the Web for millions of people

International Corporation for Assigned Names

By MIT Technology Review

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The letters to the right of the dot in a URL look harmless, but for many users they’re a barrier. In 2011, the International Corporation for Assigned Names decided to grow the number of top-level domains from 12 to 1,200, including some that use non-Latin characters.
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But that revealed a problem: many applications simply don’t recognize those new characters. Our own Mike Orcutt explains how a simple tweak could change that and help millions of people use the Internet more effectively.
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