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IDNs
Internationalized Domain Name
Originally, domain names (or to be more precise, machine names, as a domain name is generally reserved to declare machines) could only comprise ASCII characters. "International" or "internationalised" domain names are those containing characters other than ASCII characters (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, accented characters). These domain names were standardised by the IETF in RFC 3490.
More information on our page dedicated to IDNs where Afnic also provides you with an IDN convertor.
