User:Internetforlif

Why IDN will change the internet? The Internet today is undeniably global, but it began in the United States and its foundations were laid in English. All domain names for over 30 years have been made exclusively out of the English alphabet, hyphens, and numbers. Every domain! Convenient for native English speakers, but that's less than 10% of the world's population. The language barrier has been one of the few factors limiting growth of the Internet. SOME ENLIGHTENING STATISTICS

As of March 31, 2011, there are more than 2 BILLION people with Internet access: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm How many unique visitors would you guess visit Google.com on a monthly basis? In June of 2011, the figure given by compete.com is: 150,132,156.

But wait! To most people you know, isn't "Google" synonymous with the Internet? Yet, simple math will tell you that 150,132,156/2,000,000,000 is just a hair over 7 percent.

The fact of the matter is that what English-speaking users of the Internet consider to BE the Internet, is just the tip of the iceberg! There’s a much bigger Internet the rest of the world is using and they'd like to get on it in their own language.

Imagine if you wanted to access the Internet, but you didn't read or write English. What if you had to type in foreign letters to be able to reach any website directly? Wouldn't that be frustrating?

.WS "WorldSite" IDNs solve that problem. Solving a problem for billions of people is a VERY good thing! The last time it happened, there was a historic boom minting new millionaires daily.