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Registration Considerations

VeriSign® Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) program is following IETF standards related to IDN. There are important points to consider when registering an IDN as more revisions or updates could be made in the future.

The IDN Program allows a registrant to register IDNs through a Registrar.

Currently, registrants may register domain names in any script supported by Unicode.

The registrant's IDN is stored in the Registry's database in an ASCII-compatible representation as defined by RFC 3492 (Encoding Scheme: punycode).
The uniqueness of a domain name registration is determined by its Unicode representation.

VeriSign processes IDN transactions in the same manner as with all registrations in the .com and .net Shared Registration System (i.e., on first-come/first-served basis)

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published standards related to IDNs. VeriSign has migrated to the standards. The IDN standards differ slightly from the deployed Internet draft documents as far as allowable types of registrations.

These revisions may cause the registrant's domain name registration to become invalid and be deleted.

EXAMPLE: Future changes to the standards may result in some IDNs becoming invalid because they contain illegal characters or characters which may no longer be permitted due to name prep standards.
These revisions will cause modification to the VeriSign Registry's internal representation of the domain name to comply with revisions to the Internet draft documents.
For each occurrence, VeriSign will offer the affected registrar a free replacement registration, subject to availability. The replacement registration will provide a new domain name registration with an equivalent term as the invalid IDN registration.