Athough the content of web pages is written in different languages and use different characters such as Cyrllic or Chinese.  To access these pages required a domain which used roman script. To people familiar with roman characters, this might not seem like a big deal but 0.75 billion people use characters other than Roman so for them it will make life easier. The new domains could be in use as early as soon as next year.

Although the change might seem like a small one, to put it into practice will require significant changes to the Domain Name System (DNS). Computers on the internet are accessible by a group of four numbers known as the IP address. When a page is requested from a website, the domain name is resolved into the IP address though a domain name server. This acts like a telephone directory, revealing the IP address for a particular domain. The biggest challenge for international scripts will be to convert the character set to an IP address.