{"id":14899,"date":"2017-09-25T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/136.244.70.169\/insights\/?p=14899"},"modified":"2024-04-25T06:03:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T06:03:56","slug":"afnic-has-launched-idn-registrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orchidbox.com\/insights\/afnic-has-launched-idn-registrations\/","title":{"rendered":"AFNIC Has Launched IDN Registrations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are pleased to know that AFNIC has launched IDN registrations, allowing people and entities to register domain names with characters such as \u00e9, \u00e7, \u00ea, or the German \u00df.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you own a domain name registered under one of the following extensions .fr, .yt, .pm, .wf, .tf, and\/or .re, you have priority to file the &#8220;IDN&#8221; variants of that domain in the same extension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example: if you were the owner of the domain elysee.fr, you could register \u00e9lys\u00e9e.fr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please not that &#8220;Priority Registration&#8221; period is until July 03, 2012, so if you wish to apply for an IDN domain name, go to our favourite register and get in before anyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies will have to think fast and act upon it the moment it\u2019s out in the open. 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