How will the VeriSign Whois handle IDNs?
IDNs appear in Whois results in punycode. The domain name, registrar name, Whois server, referral URL, name server record, and updated date are recorded using ASCII characters (the current standard). Because Whois will not accept native language queries, VeriSign has created the IDN Conversion Tool, which converts an IDN character string into punycode. Keep in mind that domain names are unique registrations for each language. Therefore, a user must perform a Whois query for a domain name in each language (native character set).
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