So by doing this I see several problems that could immediately crop up: They will have effectively split the internet; "These sites for this country, those for that country." It will become -much- harder to directly type URLs. Will they allow the same words and domain names to double up in the different languages? Like SAL-e pointed out, many languages have letters that look the same as the current lettering system. Will people be able to have a web address that is tomshardware.com, except in Arabic, and it'd be a differnt site? Or are they going to try to have everything translate from one to another and point at the original site? If that's the case, then it's just a bunch of politically correct non-sense. [in my best whiny voice] "It's not fair to have to type the address in the way it was invented, I wanna type it in MY language!" I guess we'll see. I think with both this and the transition to IPv6, we will be seeing some major changes in the function of the internet in the next few years.