IDN Registration

Enter your IDN or ACE domain name in the textbox below.

What is an IDN

Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are domain names represented by local language characters. Such domain names can contain letters or characters from non-ASCII scripts (for example, the French é, the German ä...).

The local language domain name is followed by the top-level domain (TLD), such as .COM, .DK, .DE. An example of an IDN domain is: dömaïn.com.

How to register an IDN

The IDN system relies on a system called Punycode to encode and decode IDN domains to regular domain names and vice versa. To smoothen and ease the IDN registration process, EuroDNS has developed a tool that will automatically convert the accentuated name you have entered in the search box to its encoded version while verifying its availability.

If your keyboard doesn't support the characters you want to use in your registration, please refer to our FAQ - how to enter accentuated characters. Alternatively, if you already have converted the IDN domain to its Punycode (xn--) version, you can simply enter it in the search box.

Use of IDNs

Domain names are no longer circumscribed to the English alphabet, everyone can now use the full latin characters set. IDN registrations allow Internet users to use the full alphabet of their native language in their domain name registration When Internet users will enter a url containing an IDN domain in their web browser, the conversion to Punycode will automatically and transparently be made.

For example, the IDN domain dömaïn.com converts into xn--dman-7pa3b.com without the internet user seeing or knowing about the Punycode encoding process.