Domain dispute drags on
Icann, the organisation that oversees the internet, is coming under fire
for the changes it is making to the net's domain names.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1287000/1287432.stm

VeriSign expands domain names to more than 350 languages
IF YOU'VE BEEN waiting to register your Web address in Arabic, are
convinced that an Urdu URL will be the answer to your dot-com woes, or
are dying to have a domain name written in Cherokee, VeriSign said
Friday that it can help.
 http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/04/20/010420hnverisign.xml