What is IDN?

The abbreviation of IDN stands for Internationalized Domain Name, also called a multilingual domain name.

An IDN is a domain name that contains Unicode characters and you are no longer restricted A-Z. In other words, Internationalized Domain Names may in letters with diacritics ex: (façade) as required by many European languages or characters drawn from non-Latin scripts such as Jawi, Tamil and Chinese.

IDN, also known as multilingual domain name, contains Unicode characters which will enable you as a customer of .my DOMAIN REGISTRY to register a domain name in scripts other than ASCII/Latin (A to Z). Non-Latin scripts such as Jawi, Chinese and Tamil can be registered as a domain name under .my DOMAIN REGISTRY's testbed at http://idn.domainregistry.my until 30th November 2010.