TORONTO – The group that oversees Canadian Internet addresses wants French URLs to be spelled correctly.
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority has opened a public consultation into a rule change that would allow accents in .ca web addresses.
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Currently, they can only contain letters, numbers and hyphens.
The new policy for so-called internationalized domain names would allow website owners to use: à, â, ç, é, ë, ê, è, î, ï, ô, ù, û and ü.
It’s also proposed that existing website owners would have a period of 12 weeks to register variants of their existing URLs with accents before they’re publicly available.
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