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On the other hand, because of domain restrictions and other such nonsense Chinese websites will often use numbers that sound like words when spoken out loud rather than actual words for their domains.

Imagine being forced to only register 1337-code domains because some other country doesn't have Latin key caps on their keyboards.

Not understanding the local writing system or language does suck for foreigners, but most people in the world aren't foreigners in the country they live in.

Why should countries almost exclusively using the Arabic script be forced to switch between Latin and their normal way of writing because they want to edit the URL between writing comments? Why shouldn't people native in the 120+ languages using Devanagari be able to register domains?

Pragmatically speaking, the lack of proper language support in many non-Latin websites had led to a significant amount of them using images for labels rather than text, making Google/Bing/Baidu Translate worthless for navigating them. If you know what 你好.com is supposed to provide or sell to you, you can find it in a search engine and manually picture-check the domain if you want to be sure; the burden of being available to people outside your target demographic shouldn't fall on you just because a tiny slither of your user base doesn't understand your writing system, but you can opt into making it easier for them to find your website regardless.