IDN Crunch

Industry leaders create a full-service domain powerhouse providing total solutions for domain professionals

Los Angeles, CA and Pompano Beach, FL (January 3, 2008) - Oversee.net, a leading technology-driven online marketing solutions company, and Moniker®, one of the fastest-growing providers of domain name registration, domain asset management, and monetization services, announced today that Oversee has acquired Moniker. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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yea !

it’s time to register your 1st idn

Fortunately there are several good idn registrars . I will mention the best idn registrars that i deal with them and have good experience with them.

Starting from my favourite registrar , DynaDot

DynaDot :

• One of the most famous idn registrars on the web.
• Offer a great support
• They also offer Bulk prices for big domainers and also for starters (if you are a starter you can benefit from DynaDot bulk prices by depositing $500 into your account).
• The control panel is so easy to use andhas all the advance options that you would ever need.
• Offers a grace period
• visit DynaDot

Domainsite :

• Domainsite is also one of the big registrars in the IDN world .
• Renew fees are cheaper than Dynadot.

Miniker

• a famous registrar and
• Offers a grace period

There are more registrars , but i used to stick with these major ones , and my favourite one among them is DynaDot with their easy-to-use interface and cheap prices besides their great support.

This conversion tool will convert an International Domain Name (IDN) or nameserver from any one of the following formats to the others:

• Native Characters
• Row-based ASCII Compatible Encoding (RACE)
• Punycode

To convert an IDN or nameserver from native characters to the Punycode version that is stored in the VeriSign Whois database:

1. Type the domain name or nameserver name that you would like to check in the input field.
2. Click on “convert” and the results page will show the RACE and Punycode encoding for that domain.
3. On the results page, select domain or nameserver and click on “Query” to search the VeriSign Whois.

Input:
Type:	Native Characters RACE Punycode

http://mct.verisign-grs.com/index.shtml

Punycode is a way to represent international domain names with the limited character set (’a'-’z', ‘0′-’9′) supported by the domain name system. For example “m?nich” would be encoded as “mnich-kva”.

An IDN takes the punycode encoding, and adds a ‘xn--’ in front of it. So “m?nich.com” would become “xn--mnich-kva.com”.

IDN stands for Internationalized domain name.

     internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that (potentially) contains non-ASCII characters. Such domain names could contain letters with diacritics, as required by many European languages, or characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese. However, the standard for domain names does not allow such characters, and much work has gone into finding a way around this, either by changing the standard, or by agreeing on a way to convert internationalized domain names into standard ASCII domain names while preserving the stability of the domain name system.

IDN has, by the standards of the Internet, a long history; it was originally proposed in 1996 (by M. Duerst) and implemented in 1998 (by T.W.Tan et al). After much debate and many competing proposals, a system called Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) was adopted as the chosen standard, and is currently, as of 2005, in the process of being rolled out.

source : wikipedia

Hello and Welcome !

My name is Ala’ and iam an idner who believes in the promising future of idns.

I started this blog to help people know about idns and assist them in this new marketplace which will be so hot in the near future . 

 I hope everybody will enjoy visiting my humble blog everyday! 

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