Countries where IDNs are taking off are the Russian Federation, the Republic of Korea and China.

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IDNs are not user friendly and do not work well for emails or even Facebook accounts, says the report.

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The Report criticises most of the 19 country code IDNs currently operating for failing to capture the public imagination.

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EURid-UNESCO conclusions urge policy makers to regard the promotion and deployment of IDNs as a key component of digital literacy.

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The European Registry for Internnational Domains (EURid) and UNESCO will share their latest report on the global deployment of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs).

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With an eye on breaking out of this linguistic ghetto, technical standards were developed for Internationalised Domain Name (IDNs), allowing domain names to be written in non-Latin scripts such as Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic or Hangul, the Korean alphabet.

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