How to register an IDN
How can you register a great IDN:
1. Come up with an English list of terms that you want to register in a different language. (Ex: Job.com)
2. Use Google translate (or a native translator) to translate your terms into the language you are targeting. (Ex: “Job” in Japanese is “仕事”)
3. Check that the foreign language term is accurate by doing a google images search for the translated term (Ex: 仕事) and see if it returns images that you expect.
4. Also use the Google Adwords keyword tool to make sure that there is a large number of searches per month for your term.
5. Next, you need to convert your foreign character domain into “punycode” which is a code recognized by the registrars. A puny code converter (such as: http://www.idntools.com) can help you obtain the corresponding code (ex: xn--3kqvg.com).
6. Lastly, go to your favorite registrar and type in the punycode. *Dynadot is a particularly IDN friendly registrar.
Happy hand-regging.
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How do I register a domain name in non-latin script. The process you have mentioned is OK if the IDN is a dot com etc. I am looking for help for country specific names like Chinese/Russian etc.
@Yaris – The process works for all ccTLDs, you just have to find a registrar selling the ccTLD you are looking for.
If I didn’t understand your question, then send me a follow up example.
The existing pattern is http://www.idn.com where www and .com are in Roman/English characters, only the actual domain name is in the specific language script for which you have given a nice step-wise method.
The pattern I am looking for is where www as well as .com are replaced by characters in the specific language/.com is replaced by country specific extension like ru but in actual Russian characters.
Thanks for a quick response.
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@Yaris – Actually if you register IDN.com there is talk that it will probably be aliased to IDN.IDN.
Otherwise, the .IDN extensions that you read about yesterday have not been released yet.
(Also don’t worrry about the “www.” if you own a domain, and someone just types in NAME.EXTENSION without the “www” you can have it redirect to your site. There are no plans I’m aware of to change the “www” to other characters as it practically doesn’t matter).
Yes, I completely agree. Dynadot is very IDN friendly registrar.