International Domain Names (IDN)

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About IDN

From the ICANN IDN topic page :

"Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are domain names represented by local language characters. Such domain names could contain letters or characters from non-ASCII scripts (for example, Arabic or Chinese). Many efforts are ongoing in the Internet community to make domain names available in character sets other than ASCII."

To keep track of IDN related issues, see the ICANN topic page on IDN at http://www.icann.org/topics/idn/

Introductory Video

ICANN IDN programme director Tina Dam gives a basic introduction to internationalised domain names and how they will make the Internet more accessible than every before the global community.

http://dotsub.com/films/idnspart/

https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?idn_policy_formation.