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What are Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)?

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IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) is a domain name that contains at least one label which is displayed in a language-specific script such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese Kanji, Korean Hanggulor, Latin Alphabet-based characters with diacritics and French. IDN are stored in the Domain Name System as ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) strings using Punnycode transcription.

Here are some of the sample IDN websites:

http://東京理科大学.jp/ – Tokyo University of Science

http://스타벅스코리아.com – Starbucks Korea official website

For more information, see List of Domain Suffixes that required EPP Code Transfer Domain Name