ÿþ<html dir="ltr"> <head> <title>International .test TLDs</title> </head> <body> <h3>International Domain Names on the Web</h3> <p>Many foreign web pages on the Internet use the international <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode" target="_blank">Unicode</a> standard, developed back in 1988. The Domain Name System service itself however, running on millions of name servers worldwide, will only support 37 ASCII characters: <nobr>i.e. the 26 letters "a - z", the 10 digits "0 - 9", and the "-" character.</nobr> Accordingly a special syntax called Punycode was developed in 2003 which employed the prefix <nobr>"xn--"</nobr> in the domain label and encoded any foreign characters within the label from Unicode into ASCII e.g. <nobr><a href="http://nNS'Yf[.cn" target="_blank">nNS'Yf[.cn</a></nobr> was thus converted by the browser into <nobr><a href="http://xn--xkry9kk1bz66a.cn" target="_blank">xn--xkry9kk1bz66a.cn</a></nobr> for Tsinghua University. However the Top Level Domain itself, <nobr>i.e. <b>".cn"</b></nobr> still needs to be in ASCII. A Chinese Government program that "hides" this ".cn" requirement can be installed on individual PCs (in China), but this is a stop-gap measure. Countries have asked for additional Top Level Domains to be created in their own language. <p> In preparation for this, in 2008, ICANN released 11 new Top Level Domain names in foreign scripts using each language's word for "test". <p> These Top Level Domains are set out below. Note the Persian, Arabic and Yiddish languages which display the script right-to-left (rather than left-to-right). <ol> <li><b>.xn--0zwm56d</b> from the Chinese word for <b>.test</b> in the Simplified Chinese script i.e.<br><b>.KmÕ‹ (pronounced as .cè shì according to <a href="http://www.cozychinese.com/convert/" target="_blank">www.cozychinese.com/convert/</a></b>)<p> <li><b>.xn--11b5bs3a9aj6g</b> from the Hindi word for <b>.test</b> in the Devanagari script i.e.<br><b>.* 0 @  M 7 > (pronounced as .par+kc according to <a href="http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit" target="_blank">demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit</a></b>)<p> <li><b>.xn--80akhbyknj4f</b> from the Russian word for <b>.test</b> in the Cyrillic script i.e.<br><b>.8A?KB0=85 (pronounced as .ispitaniye according to <a href="http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit" target="_blank">demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit</a></b>)<p> <li><b>.xn--9t4b11yi5a</b> from the Korean word for <b>.test</b> in the Hangul script i.e.<br><b>.LÑ¤Â¸Ò (pronounced as .teseuteu according to <a href="http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit" target="_blank">demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit</a></b>)<p> <li><b>.xn--deba0ad</b> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_language" target="_blank">Yiddish</a> word for <b>.test</b> in the Hebrew script i.e.<br><b>ØâáØ. (pronounced as .t»st according to <a href="http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit" target="_blank">demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit</a></b>)<p> <li><b>.xn--g6w251d</b> from the Chinese word for <b>.test</b> in the Traditional Chinese script i.e.<br><b>.,nfŠ (pronounced as .cè shì according to <a href="http://www.cozychinese.com/convert/" target="_blank">www.cozychinese.com/convert/</a></b>)<p> <li><b>.xn--hgbk6aj7f53bba</b> from the Persian word for <b>.test</b> in the Perso-Arabic script i.e.<br><b>"2E'Ì4Ì. (pronounced as .­zm¡ys–y according to <a href="http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit" target="_blank">demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit</a></b>)<p> <li><b>.xn--hlcj6aya9esc7a</b> from the Tamil word for <b>.test</b> i.e.<br><b>.ª ° ¿ Ÿ Í š È (pronounced as .parimcai according to <a href="http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit" target="_blank">demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit</a></b>)<p> <li><b>.xn--jxalpdlp</b> from the Greek word for <b>.test</b> i.e.<br><b>.´¿º¹¼® (pronounced as .dokim according to <a href="http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit" target="_blank">demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit</a></b>)<p> <li><b>.xn--kgbechtv</b> from the Arabic word for <b>.test</b> i.e.<br><b>%.*('1. (pronounced as .ak–tb¡r according to <a href="http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit" target="_blank">demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit</a></b>)<p> <li><b>.xn--zckzah</b> from the Japanese word for <b>.test</b> in the Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana script i.e.<br><b>.Æ0¹0È0 (pronounced as .tesuto according to <a href="http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit" target="_blank">demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/translit</a></b>) <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name" target="_blank">Click&nbsp;here for more details</a> <p><center><A HREF="javascript:window.print()">Click to Print This Page</A></center> </body> </html>