When and how will we be able to register a domain name in Chinese characters?
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you can already register a website in chinese... it is possible from at least 5 years ago!!! it will start with xn-- and so on, the browser will convert it automagically | |||
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Internationalized Domain Names have been around for some time now. There is limited browser support, and you can only register them under certian TLD's, but they exist and are in use. | ||||
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There are a number of tlds that accept IDN registrations using Chinese characters (and others). See here for a list. | |||
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Web hosting company Dreamhost offers it now. Here's a humorous blog post from them about it: The Traveler It looks like if you have a DH account already you can do if from the panel. It will probably work for a new signup as well if you paste in the Unicode, but I haven't tried it yet. | |||
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When? Now! I even wrote* a DNS class to support IDN (probably duplicating effort, but it was for learning purposes): http://pastebin.com/f3cfbf6a6 I used C++ highlighting since they don't have C#, but that s C#. Don't try it in a C++ compiler. :P *With the generous help of the people of the programming thread at the Penny Arcade forums. | ||||
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