Web addresses are about to change! If you think that it’s going to be confined to the English language for all time, you’re wrong. Pretty soon you’ll see web addresses in various characters like Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Hindi, Greek, and Cyrillic. Internet users in these countries will be able to surf the web in their respective languages.

This move to permit other characters other than English is still set for approval on Friday, which is the final day of the meeting that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is holding in South Korea.

According to Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of ICANN, when this gets approved, it will be the biggest change to the Internet since it was invented 40 years ago. A translation system is designed in order to accommodate this character change in web addresses. And it seems that approval is the only thing that’s missing because the translation system is more than ready to roll. Thrush said that they’ve been testing it for two years now.

This seems like a great development in the Internet. What can you say about it?