Hosting non English domain names?
 

Hello,

I am trying to host non English Domain names which my regular hosting does not support the characters. Anyone know where I can host such domains?

thanks in advance.

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So I convert the unicode to ASCII the register the ASCII with my host? And the characters will work when i add the site?

anyone else can assist with explaining how http://mct.verisign-grs.com/ works?

Type in your mumbo jumbo domain. It will convert it to ascii, something like xn--whatever.com. The "xn--" thing is what you use with your webhost.

so if i use this conversion tool which domain will be indexed the punny code or the other? Terrible for SEO?

Yeah, I've used such domains on several hosts. It have never been a problem.

Google index the domains the way you want them to be indexed and not "xn--........".

But if google were to crawl the page naturally then which domain would they index? The puny or the ID? When i put the ID into some browsers like ff it morphs the domain to the puny.

I would just redirect it to another URL, that way what's in the browser is something meaningful and memorable, not xn--whatever. (Emil already said Google indexes the non-"xn--" version.)

Most interesting IDNs I think I've seen (the names, not the sites) are www.£.com, www.€.com and www.¥.com. Although there isn't a www.$.com, because it's a disallowed ascii character, there is a www.¢.com.

When I say 'seen them', BTW, I mean I've looked them up or seen them mentioned on other sites. I don't think I've ever seen an IDN in Google. I assume they must show up in foreign language Googles though.