ICANN, global manager of domain names, just know at a conference held in Seoul from that during 2010 the e-mail does not necessarily contain more characters Roman. Today, the rules set by ICANN require providers of e-mail to restrict, at least partially, certain types of characters called "classics" such addresses.

Thus, once the measure will force the Chinese, Indians, Arabs and other peoples whose language is not written in Roman characters, will have an e-mail composed in an entirely different alphabet, what we call familiarly special characters. "Of the 1.6 billion users worldwide today, more than half use languages whose writing is not in Roman characters (...) It is the biggest technical change on the Internet since its invention 40 years ago, "said Rod Beckstorm, CEO of ICANN.