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In a modern Internet community, many users are no longer satisfied with using only ASCII symbols to identify a domain name or a web resource. For example, they would like to be able to register a new domain using their native characters in Arabic or Chinese. That is why the internationalization of network resources is a cornerstone in widening horizons for the World Wide Web.
This lesson describes the internationalization of the network Domain Name resources.