Apart from Afilias (.info) and VeriSign (.com/.net), many different registries
throughout the world are working on the adoption of Internationalized
Domain Names. Within Europe, there are several registries interested in
expanding the character set that can be used for domain names, primarily to
provide country- and language-spezific characters.
The following table lists all the registries that have published a time schedule
for the expansion of their character set, and all those that do already accept
registrations of Internationalized Domain Names.
Not listed are top level domains that cannot be registered at Knipp,
e.g. Korea or Thailand.
For the character sets mentioned here, only those characters can be used
that belong to the group of letters (i.e. alphabetic characters).
Special characters like £ (pound, currency sign) in the Latin-1 Supplement
or the (euro symbol) are not supported.
Top-Level-Domain
Land
|
time schedule IDN-Adoption
|
allowed letters or fonts
|
additional information
|
.at Austria
|
March 31st, 2004
|
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.biz generic
|
October 12th, 2004
|
ä ö ü
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.ch Switzerland
|
March 1st, 2004
|
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.com generic
|
December 14th, 2003
|
Latin,
greek,
cyrillic,
armenian,
hebrew,
arabic and most
of the asiatic character sets.
|
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.de Germany
|
March 1st, 2004
|
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.dk Denmark
|
February 1st, 2004
|
æ ø å ä ö ü é
|
|
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.es Spain
|
no official time schedule available
|
still unavailable
|
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.fi Finland
|
no official time schedule available
|
still unavailable
|
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.fr France
|
no official time schedule available
|
still unavailable
|
End of 2003 predefinition of the character set
|
.gr Greece
|
no official time schedule available
|
still unavailable
|
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.hu Hungary
|
March 1st, 2004
|
á é í ó ö õ ú ü ű
|
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.info generic
|
March 16th, 2004
|
ä ö ü
|
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.li Liechtenstein
|
March 1st, 2004
|
|
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.net generic
|
December 14th, 2003
|
Latin,
greek,
cyrillic,
armenian,
hebrew,
arabic and most
of the asiatic character sets.
|
|
.no Norway
|
February 18th, 2004
|
á à â ä č ç đ é
è ê ģ ñ ó ò ô ö
š ŧ ü ž æ ø å
|
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.org generic
|
January 15th, 2005
|
ä ö ü
|
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.pl Poland
|
4th quarter of 2003
|
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.se Sweden
|
4th quarter of 2003
|
å ä ö ü é
|
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