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The new naming system means that websites will no longer have to include suffixes such as .com, .co.uk or .cn written in English. Instead complete web addresses will be possible in languages such as Chinese, Arabic or Korean for the first time.

These new Internationalized Domain Names will come online next year, and may prove very popular since more than half of the 1.6 billion people who use the Internet speak languages that do not use the alphabet.

Many think the move is necessary and the morally correct thing to do. Not only is it an issue of convenience, but it's an issue of what's right, the right to express their names in their own cultural language.

The change to the naming system is not without opposition however. Some have said that the new approach could lead to the separation of some online communities operating only within their languages from the rest of the web. Others have claimed that it will make protection of intellectual property rights even harder than it already is.