Come June, full website names may be possible in Tamil, 8 other Indian scripts

Global internet servers are expected to enable registration of complete website names in nine Indian scripts by June, according to the Universal Acceptance Steering Group.

At present, non-English scripts through which a website can be booked include Mandarin, Arabic, Russian and Devanagari., The top-level domain (TLD), however, can be booked only in a limited set of characters identified by the root server. One can book a website name in Devanagari script, but only .bharat in this script is available as extension.

The nine Indian scripts that will be initially fed in root servers of the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) are Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu.