http://www.idncrunch.com your gateway to IDNs ! Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:59:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.idncrunch.com/2008/01/03/moniker-joins-overseenet-family/ yea ! it's time to register your 1st idn :D 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 ... http://www.idncrunch.com/2007/12/25/idn-registrars/ 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: Type the domain name ... http://www.idncrunch.com/2007/12/25/idn-conversion-tool/ 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". http://www.idncrunch.com/2007/12/25/what-is-punycode/ 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 ... http://www.idncrunch.com/2007/12/25/what-is-an-idn/ 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 ... http://www.idncrunch.com/2007/12/25/welcome-to-idn-crunch/