First IDN top level domains hit the web.
Today was an historic day for domain names and internationalized domain names, as the first three non-Latin script top level domain names went live. All three are country code top level domains under the IDN ccTLD fast track program.
ICANN has provided an example of an already functioning site using an IDN ccTLD: ??????????-??????????????????.??????
If you???re like me, when going to that web address you???re browser will display this:
http://xn???-rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/
But hurdles still remain to view these new TLDs. As explained on the ICANN blog:\
If your software does not have full IDN support, this might not work exactly as expected. You may see a mangled string of letters and numbers, and perhaps some percent signs or a couple of ???xn--???s mixed into the address bar. Or it may not work at all.
Related posts:
- Internationalized Domain Names – IDN’s on CNN
- GoDaddy Launches Internationalized Domain Names
- Video: Generic Top Level Domain Names Mean Dot Anything
- ICANN’s New Generic Top Level Domain Names (gTLD)
- Nominet Plans Release of Super-Short Domain Names
- Domain Names Considered Property: Protect Your Domains
- How to Get More Traffic With Expired Domain Names
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