When Web site addresses using writing systems like Chinese and Arabic were introduced back in 2009, it was hailed as a step that would transform the Internet.
But 12 years later, the vast majority of the Web remains wedded to the Roman alphabet — and ICANN, the organization in charge of protecting the Internet’s infrastructure, is on a mission to change it.
“The truth of the matter is that even if half the world’s population uses the Internet today, it’s the elite of the world — mainly those living in cities, mainly those with a good income,” Goran Marby, head of the