Archive for January 25, 2008

GoDaddy now allows IDN registration

Looking for a domain name expressed in a foreign language? With GoDaddy’s Internationalized Domain Name search capabilities, you can register .COM and .NET domain names in over 100 native languages (non-ASCII characters) such as Chinese, Japanese and Arabic or in standard ASCII character format. For example: пустыня (Russian word for “desert”) is equivalent to xn--m1adged4c3a [...]

Peru set to launch Spanish IDNs

The Peruvian namespace .PE will soon be open to Spanish character domain names. An initial priority registration period is currently underway. Spanish characters are all the rage at the moment. After Spain’s own domain, .ES, both .INFO and .BIZ have recently announced plans to offer Spanish-language characters. Peru is doing the same with 7 characters [...]