Posted by Marcus Bointon on 05/13/05 11:25

On 13 May 2005, at 01:11, Richard Lynch wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2005 3:40 am, Marcus Bointon said:
>
>> Multilingual domain support e.g. café.com
>
> Errrrr.
>
> Maybe they changed the rules, but I don't think that's a valid
> domain name
> AT ALL.
>
> So maybe the reason you are having trouble is you are looking for
> something that cannot exist...

They did "change the rules" starting in November 2000, with RFCs
(3454, 3490, 3491, 3492) finalised in 2003. See http://
www.verisign.com/products-services/naming-and-directory-services/
naming-services/internationalized-domain-names/index.html This page
may be of interest too: http://www.imc.org/idna/. Also, have you
tried going to www.café.com? It works just fine for me (if you're
using an antique browser like IE6 it may not work, though verisign
have a free plugin to enable it). http://www.1stdomain.net/ does
international registrations (though does not handle .co.uk domains).
From a PHP point of view, http://pear.php.net/package/Net_IDNA/
what's needed.

Marcus
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Marcus Bointon
Synchromedia Limited: Putting you in the picture
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