定义了国际化的域名标准后，通过设置域名的等级将会对网络安全犯罪问题有一定的抑制作用，在提高用户数量的同时加强了安全风险控制。

Security Concerns

"One of the reasons it's taken so long to work this through the policy system is that there's been a desire to reduce the opportunities for cybercrime," Beckstrom says. Online "phishing" scams - when users are deceived by a domain name that appears in an e-mail or a link - was one of the biggest concerns.

He says the agency plans to approve only top-level domain names - such as .com or .org - that don't confuse users. There will also be guidelines for the second-level domains - the name that appears to the left of the period.

About half of the pages people navigate to on the Web now are found through search engines, Beckstrom says. Internet users will still be able to search in English for an international domain name. If, however, users opt to type the URL into their browser, they'll have to know how to switch their keyboard into a different language or script.