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The Spanish speaking world is becoming a bigger and bigger market on the internet, as Spanish speaking users soar into the millions upon millions. Now that audience has its own language better represented on the web; Argentines will soon be able to make websites whose titles include the accent marks and ñ found in the language. According to the Clarin, the change will begin in September and is the end of a ten year long debate over whether not this will be “good” for the internet. Certainly, it will cause problems for users outside a Spanish speaking country whose keyboards may not make accents or the ñ without a special command. Those in Argentina who want to change a registered domain name to include these new characters must do so from September 8^th to December 17^th. Another change is that all government (gov.ar) websites will change to gobierno (gob.ar), yet another way of asserting that the Spanish language is no longer playing second fiddle to English on the World Wide Web.