Support for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)

Hostgator China supports Registration, Renewal and Transfer of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) under the following domain name extensions:

• .ASIA

• .BIZ

• .CA

• .CO

• .COM

• .DE

• .ES

• .EU

• .INFO

• .NAME

• .NET

• .ORG

• .PW

• .TEL

Refer to the supported character sets mentioned below:

• .ASIA IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets here.

• .BIZ IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets below:

  • Chinese

  • Danish

  • Finnish

  • German

  • Hungarian

  • Icelandic

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Latvian

  • Lithuanian

  • Norwegian

  • Polish

  • Portuguese

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

• .CA IDN: French characters, English alphabets and digits

• .CO IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets below:

  • Chinese

  • Danish

  • Finnish

  • Icelandic

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Norwegian

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

• .COM / .NET IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets here.

  Note

  the character ? (codepoint=962) is not supported on our platform.

• .DE IDN: Restricted German characters, English alphabets and digits

  Note

  the character ß (codepoint=223) is not supported on our platform.

• .ES IDN: Restricted Spanish characters, English alphabets and digits

• .EU IDN: You can refer to supported character sets here.

• .IN.NET IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets here.

• .INFO IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets below:

  • Danish

  • German

  • Hungarian

  • Icelandic

  • Korean

  • Latvian

  • Lithuanian

  • Polish

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

• .NAME IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets here.

  Note

  the character ? (codepoint=962) is not supported on our platform.

• .ORG IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets below:

  • Chinese

  • Cyrillic

  • Danish

  • German

  • Hindi

  • Hungarian

  • Icelandic

  • Korean

  • Latvian

  • Lithuanian

  • Polish

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

• .PW IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets here.

• .TEL IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets below:

  • Chinese

  • Danish

  • Finnish

  • French

  • German

  • Hungarian

  • Icelandic

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Latvian

  • Lithuanian

  • Norwegian

  • Polish

  • Portuguese

  • Russian

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

• CentralNic IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets below:

  • .EU.COM:

    • Arabic

    • Cyrillic

    • Greek

    • Hebrew

    • Latin

  • .GB.COM:

    • Latin

  • .AE.ORG:

    • Arabic

  • .KR.COM:

    • Korean

  • .US.COM:

    • Arabic

    • Chinese

    • Cyrillic

    • Greek

    • Hebrew

    • Japanese

    • Latin

  • .QC.COM:

    • Latin

  • .DE.COM:

    • Latin

  • .GB.NET:

    • Latin

  • .NO.COM:

    • Latin

  • .HU.COM:

    • Latin

  • .GR.COM:

    • Greek

  • .JPN.COM:

    • Japanese

  • .UY.COM:

    • Latin

  • .ZA.COM:

    • Latin

  • .BR.COM:

    • Latin

  • .CN.COM:

    • Chinese

  • .SA.COM:

    • Arabic

  • .SE.COM:

    • Latin

  • .SE.NET:

    • Latin

  • .UK.COM:

    • Latin

  • .UK.NET:

    • Latin

  • .RU.COM:

    • Cyrillic