Re: [OT] Where to register for .de domain name?

From: Andreas Paasch (Andreas_at_Paasch.Net)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:47:47 +0200

According to Vulcan logic - or learning thereof - Marcin Dobrucki wrote:

> Chung Leong wrote:
>
>> Umlaut domains only works in Netscape 7.1 :-(
>
> I was under the impression that umlauts are completely illegal in
> domain names:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt?number=1035
>
> Although IIRC there has been work to bring extended character sets
> into domain names. Has this been taken into use already?
>
> /Marcin

IN general terms, german/swedish umlauts, can be used in domain names as
well can danish/norwegian special characters.
It's not wide spread AFAIK, but it will come.

Can't refer to any RFC or the like, but I know for sure.

/Andreas 

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