After the statement made by The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) confirmed the plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses appear next year, many countries, especially those with official Arabic and Chinese languages take an interest to innovation named as "the biggest change" to the way the Internet works since it was invented four decades ago.

With Icann announced that it would accept the first applications for Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) by 16 November many foresaw Chinese web addresses first to appear followed by Arabic and Russian.

With more than 253 million people online China considered as the biggest internet nation and has already made an attempt to allow its domestic users to enter web addresses in their own language. From other side the internet language issue has recently been raised on the highest political level in Russia, where president Medvedev expressed the necessity of Cyrillic lettering to web addresses.

However, it was the Egypt which government officially applied for the first Internet domain written in Arabic. The new name will be .masr written in the Arabic alphabet - which translates as .egypt. Today, Egypt often is considered as a bridge between West and Middle East and its government undertaking major information technology and infrastructure projects with an attempt to lead the country to become more technological nation. From this point this step can facilitate the Egypt's position as a technological pioneer in the region.

At the time it is more than 1.6 Billion internet users worldwide speak languages with non-Latin scripts and this change can potentially help not only half of the world's internet users today, but much more than half of the future users as the Internet continues to spread.