Here, usingjoomla.com would like to introduce you to IDNs - Internationalised Domain Names.
"Most" domain names use ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) characters - latin letters (a - b) and /or numerals (0 - 9) and a hyphen (-)
The use of non-ASCII domain names began in about the year 2008 when Internationalised Domain Names began to emrge allowing domain names to be registered in "local" languages such as: Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian.
How non-ASCII domain names "work" is beyond the scope of this article - except to say that a series of conversions take place in your browser.
Below - we list some Internationalised Domain Names and their nearest English translation / equivalent.
If you spot an error or omission - please let us know.
| IDN | Country / Language | English / ASCII Equivalent |
.在线 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .online |
.公司 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .company |
.移动 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .mobile |
.我爱你 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .ILoveYou |
.公司.香港 | Hong Kong / Chinese | .company.hongkong |
.網絡.香港 | Hong Kong / Chinese | .network.hongkong |
.組織.香港 | Hong Kong / Chinese | .organisation.hongkong |
.個人.香港 | Hong Kong / Chinese | .personal.hongkong |
.香港 | Hong Kong / Chinese | .hongkong |
.政府.香港 | Hong Kong / Chinese | .government.hongkong |
.網絡.香港 | Hong Kong / Chinese | .internet.hongkong |
.組織.香港 | Hong Kong / Chinese | .internet.hongkong |
.教育.香港 | Hong Kong / Chinese | .education.hongkong |
.中國 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .china |
.台湾 | Taiwan (Republic of China) / Chinese | .taiwan |
.网站 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .website |
.政府 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .government |
.娱乐 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .entertainment |
.机构 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .agency |
.企业 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .enterprise |
.游戏 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .game |
.商标 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .trademark |
| .佛山 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .foshan Foshan: City in People's Republic of China 佛山 中华人民共和国城市 |
| .广东 | People's Republic of China / Chinese | .guangdong Guangdong: Province in People's Republic of China 省份在 人们 中华民国 |
.セール | Japan / Japanese | .sale |
.ストア | Japan / Japanese | .store |
.クラウド | Japan / Japanese | .cloud |
.みんな | Japan / Japanese | .everyone |
.コム | Japan / Japanese | .com |
.ファッション | Japan / Japanese | .fashion |
.ポイント | Japan / Japanese | .point |
.商店 | Japan / Japanese | .store |
.संगठन | India / Hindi | .organisation |
.कॉम | India / Hindi | .com |
.नेट | India / Hindi | .net |
.คอม | Thailand / Thai | .com |
.닷컴 | Korea / Korean | .com |
.닷넷 | Korea / Korean | .net |
.한국 | Republic of Korea / Korean (South Korea) | .korea |
.дети | Russian Federation / Russian | .children |
.ком | Russian Federation / Russian | .com |
.онлайн | Russian Federation / Russian | .online |
.орг | Russian Federation / Russian | .org |
.сайт | Russian Federation / Russian | .website |
| .рус | Russian Federation / Russian | .rus Shortened version of русский русский is Russian for: Russian |
| .москва | Russian Federation / Russian | .moscow Geographic IDN: Moscow |
.католик | Russian Federation / Russian | .catholic Proposed IDN domain name |
| .ею | Russian Federation / Russian | .eu (European Union) |
.рф | Russian Federation / Russian | .ru |
.ελ | Greece Ελλάδα Greek Republic Ellinikí Dimokratía the Hellenic Republic Ελληνική Δημοκρατία the Republic of Greece Δημοκρατίας της Ελλάδας | .gr |
