Web addresses can be written in Georgian from now on

Georgia was officially granted the right to use Georgian script in web addresses by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

Agenda.ge, 20 Jan 2016 - 12:01, Tbilisi,Georgia

Georgians can now use their own Georgian alphabet to write web addresses in a browser.

The country was officially granted this right by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

According to the decision, web addresses will be written in modern Georgian Mkhedruli script and ended with .áá (".ge"), the domain representing Georgia.

Details regarding the terms and conditions of registering Georgian language web addresses will be revealed at a special press conference by Tbilisi-based Information Technologies Development Center (ITDC) later this afternoon.

ITDC was the organisation that negotiated with ICANN about using Georgian alphabet in web addresses.

Today’s press briefing will be attended by head of the Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) Vakhtang Abashidze and ICANN representative for Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia Michael Yakushev.