You’re right, Mike, it does. It centralizes your readers to a single language and forces everyone to use the ever-inclusive, yet ever-exclusive Roman characters

There are several advantages to having a non-English domain, aside from the annual fee we get to pay for the occasional visit. By guaranteeing our domain in whatever languages we choose to promote ourselves in, we’re keeping our chances for online revenue open. Although many people won’t admit it, we all dream of making it big online. As more and more non-English people come online and start using search engines, we’ll be making brainless sites that have poor machine translations of our content in the hopes that people will come and click on our Arabic AdSense ads to earn us a few hundred Riyals or Euros.

Just because the majority of the make money online sites and “zOMG click-my-links-please!” sites are all English, doesn’t mean this trend will continue.

Personally, I look forward to seeing a bunch of other language users start to see the internet the same way we English people do. Perhaps they’ll grow tired of the endless commercialism and start developing unique technologies and methodoligies that will fundamentally change the way we think about and use the interwebs