What is IDNS?
IDNS is an elegant means of providing non-English character domain names. The technology being used was developed by i-DNS.net International. The i-DNS solution is entirely interoperable with the current Domain Name System. The i-DNS system first converts a multilingual domain name into Unicode. From there it is fed through a transformation process from the UCS-4 range to produce a UTF-5 string. For example, the multilingual domain is converted into the UTF-5 string: L6FDP645L316L7DFL40D.L16CL3F8. Because the final domain name produced from the original UTF-5 name is within the ASCII range allowed by the current DNS, IDNS is completely compatible with all standard Internet protocols and existing clients/servers. Even more exciting than this is that this is the fact that the current DNS can be multilingual enabled and internationalised immediately this means that the i-DNS solution works for everything from HTTP to SMTP and requires little or no change to the current system.
