About IDNSearch

IDNSearch exists to raise the general public's awareness of Internationalized Domain Names and to promote its use by providing a central directory of IDN’s already in use today. We have built social features like commenting, voting, tagging along with search and syndication to encourage active interaction - enjoy!

Discover

The world of IDN’s is a fascinating one. Many people don’t realize how empowering it is to non-English speaking cultures and remain oblivious to the revolution that is underway. IDNSearch will help users discover how it is being used all over the world. It’s a domain name like any other, but in your native language!

Share it!

Own an IDN or know of one? Share it with us and we will share it with the world!

Voting

Users are encouraged to cast votes on the domains based on their opinion. Voting is done by clicking on the + and - buttons, and each user can submit a positive or negative vote once for each domain.

There are myriads of reasons for casting votes - it’s your voice so it’s all up to you. Here are some guidelines that you may want to take into consideration while voting:

• IDN’s with less than 5 votes will be shown collapsed by default, and the hyperlink is annotated with rel="nofollow" so a rogue link cannot gain search engine rankings.
• Broken links should generally be voted down, we may verify and remove an IDN if it is inaccessible. This is effectively a way to report a broken link.
• This is an international community by definition - we politely request that users refrain from voting down an IDN just because it doesn't display properly in your browser.
• Generally, we will not remove a link simply because it has a low vote-count. As long as it is a valid IDN, there is tangible value to the community.
• Parked IDN pages are nonetheless valid (with ads or not) as long as it is accessible with an IDN. We do not discriminate against these links but users are free to vote them down if the desire is to prevent IDNSearch from promoting their search engine ranking.
• IDN’s that resolve to a site with adult content are PROHIBITED. We canot automate the submission process without placing some trust in the user that they conform to this policy but we trust that the community can police itself.

Tagging

When submitting an IDN, you have the ability to associate the domain with any number of tags. Tags are (often short) labels that categorizes or describes the IDN and you simply make them up.
When the IDN is listed, the associated tags are also displayed and clicking on a tag brings you to the list of IDNs that are similarly tagged.

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• FreeBSD
• PHP
• CakePHP
• MySQL
• Vi-IMproved
• Prototype
• script.aculo.us

Author

IDNSearch is created by William Tan. I will post IDNSearch news on this blog.
I can be reached via my i-name contact page: =wil/(+contact) . Alternatively, leave a comment on one of the IDNSearch blog posts.