IDN Question for my software...

[x11joex11]

I am adding IDN support to my software dnfinder, located at dnfinder.net. In order to add some features I need to ask some questions to the pros around here. .

- Are there good sites for translating the meanings of different IDN's.
- What are the most popular kind of IDN's to register.
- What would you think would be a really cool IDN feature.

Currently in 1.5 (which is not released, but you can request a beta if you help me test), I just added in IDN support with the ability to convert lists to punycode or punycode back to the IDN characters. This is really useful because, then you can check the expired domains (which my program does automatically) for availability of IDN's. For IDN's expiring and perhaps if you guys know any good sites for translating I can have it automatically do queries against it to try and guess it's meaning. It probably won't be 100% accurate but it will be kind of cool I think.

What do you guys think?

 

[rhys]

The most popular IDNs are the latins, japanese, chinese, korean, and russian.

 

[Charley]

- Are there good sites for translating the meanings of different IDN's.
- What are the most popular kind of IDN's to register.
- What would you think would be a really cool IDN feature.

- I would recommend hiring a human translator rather than web based translators as most of them tend to have different meanings.

- The main ones are Japanese, Chinese. Then Arabic, Hebrew, Korean. BTW, even Spanish, German, French have IDN's.

- PunyCode conversion, the domain name with it's overture/google searches, the list of IDN sales, drop lists of IDN's names.