ICANN discovers that Latin isn't everything.

[Ominous Gamer]

and the first "WTF is that" address goes to.... http://ïðåçèäåÃ*ò.ðô/

Yep, ICANN has enabled Arabic and Cyrillic domains.
The next few months of phishing attacks should be very interesting...

Web addresses formerly based only on 37 characters--A though Z, the 10 numerical digits, and the dash symbol--can now use 90,000 characters from several languages, many of these being Chinese characters. And just as a capital "O" and a zero look similar, various characters within other languages do, too.

[Dreadnaught]

That visible URL actually doesn't translate into a destination URL for me...

But yeah, this is going to open up a whole new range of possible scams. Because you're not going to be able to tell when that Chinese site is legit or not. And often it won't be.

[Ominous Gamer]

Don't know if its the forums, the languages installed with the OS, IE, or Chrome; but the link works now (for me). You may notice that the working link does not look like the actual address.
This is going to be such a fucking headache.

Reading up on it, the DNS is changing it to Latin, since that still works in Latin only.

[LittleFuzzy]

It's not like the text matters. It's all still numbers in the end.

[Being]

It's not like the text matters. It's all still numbers in the end.

Two numbers.

[RandBlade]

Not working for me either.

At the end of the day, I'm likely only to ever go to English-language websites so its not going to make any difference for me whatsoever - or most other people here. Yes a lot here for whom Dutch or something else is first-language, but that's still primarily latin characters.

[Nessus]

Työnnä anglofiilinen pääsi perseeseesi, perkeleen tuhkamuna!