Non - Latin URL or internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name
which consists of language-specific script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Chinese, Russian, or the Latin-alphabet-based characters with special symbols, such as French.
The history of non-latin URLs began in 16 November 2009, when ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) voted in favour of non-Latin Web-adressses. At first, the change conserned only the last part of the URL - after the
dot in dot-com. It meant that it was allowed to register web-adresses like, for example, www.yandex.рус instead of www. yandex.ru.
Nowadays, one can register fully Cyrillic or Arabic URLs. The fist such Web-address was launched in Arabic countries: Egypt, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. There are also Cyrillic URLs that were first registered in Russian Federation.
