We are accepting for free pre-registrations of info-domains with special characters.
(https://www.domainregistry.de/info.html.Afilias, the registry of info-domains, has declared now,
that it will introduce info-domains with special characters in the 4th quarter of 2003. Afilias is introducing info-domain names with "Umlaute" like
"ä", "ü" and "ö" special for the German market.
These special characters
are also used in many languages, e.g. scandinavian, turkish etc. and are therefore of
interest for a great part of the non-anglo-saxon world.
Afilias announced that it will be the first generic top level registry
to implement an ICANN-standards compliant internationalized domain name (IDN) solution
with the launch of its first IDN product for .INFO. By the end of the fourth quarter
of 2003,Afilias will open registration of .INFO names using the German script umlaut characters: “ä,” “ö,” and “ü.”
“This is an important step in the evolution of the Internet as a true global medium for communication. .INFO’s success in Germany has been extraordinary and illustrates the demand for domain names that have international meaning,” said Philipp Grabensee, Chairman of Afilias’ Board of Directors located in Düsseldorf, Germany. “We believe that German script registration will be popular given that .INFO has over a quarter of a million .INFO
domains already registered in Germany, with at least 10% of those containing the letter
combinations ae, oe, and ue, which are the widely usef alternatives to registering an umlaut character on the Web.”
The umlaut has the effect of adding an "e" after the vowels a, o and u. The letter combinations "ae", "oe", and "ue" are generally substituted for "ä","ö", and "ü" in e-mail and other forms of communication where umlauts are not available. There are currently thousands of words in the German language that use umlauts that previously have been unable to be registered as Web sites or used in e-mail.
Afilias has worked closely with the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim (The German Language Institute in Mannheim, Germany) in developing an appropriate solution to address the needs of registrants in Germany and surrounding areas. Based on the advice of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Afilias will introduce its first IDN solution to address the common use of umlaut characters.
We are an ICANN registrar and guarantee a fast and reliable registration
of domain names.
You can order now also .bz-domains, tv-domains and
com,net,org-domains in many different languages.
You can use the special
characters of your own
language.
One example for a domain with special characters: glück.cc.