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Old 05-25-2008, 05:06 AM   · #3
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I'm not exactly sure what you are asking.

If you are talking about what language you should register the names themselves in, you should always register in the local dialects. In the case of India and China, there are a few languages to choose from, but Hindi is the main one for India and simplified Chinese is preferable for mainland China (although traditional Chinese is popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau). Before the days of IDNs, people did register English transliterations of foreign words (some still do), but these are not IDNs, as they do not contain the true native language characters. To find out what local words to register as IDNs, use a good online dictionary.

If you are talking about the registering process, this can be done in English. A registrar like Dynadot is good, but make sure you select the IDN option when checking the name's availability. Then all you need to do is cut and paste from your dictionary into the search function. Make sure that you do some research before registering (using Google etc.) to see if you have a popular term that means what you think it does. Remember that IDNs are represented in punycode (xn--), which is the ASCII characters that represent IDN unicode characters.


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