The U.N.-backed forum is building on a decision by the body responsible for domains, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, to allow Web site addresses in any language.
VOA: standard.2009.11.16
Recently, the company renewed its agreement with ICANN(Internet CorporationforAssignedNamesandNumbers) which extends its rights over the domain namesfor another six years.
Icann(Internet CorporationforAssignedNamesandNumbers) is creating hundreds of other top-level domains as part of a separate expansion set to create addresses ending in .home, .shop and .play.
VeriSign recently renewed its contract with the ICANN(Internet CorporationforAssignedNamesandNumbers) to serve as the exclusive provider for .net domain names (see: ICANN Renewal Bumps VeriSign Shares Higher).