Does QuickDNS Support International DNS?
No standard has yet been established by IETF for international domain names. For further info see: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/idn-charter.html Internet Users Society – Niue permits registration of names with European accented characters, but they do so by violating the published standards. Their domains that use accented characters are incompatible with some DNS resolvers and some operating systems. VeriSign (owner of Network Solutions) is currently hosting a Multilingual Domain Names Testbed. For more information on this testbed see: http://www.verisign-grs.com/ The companies that are participating in this test are doing so to allow for reservation of international domain names. The names thus registered don’t appear anywhere in the domain name system – they’re just reserved. Basically, the approach they’re taking is to use the ACE method to encode UTF formatted domain names into ASCII format. This will allow current DNS servers to support the multilingual domain names without
