IDN

"An Internationalised domain name (IDN; en français, nom de domaine internationalisé) is an Internet domain name that (potentially) contains non-ASCII characters" (such as extended Latin characters, diacritics, or non-Latin scripts).

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is responsible for regulations that affect use of IDNs.

In September 2005, a meeting was held in Dakar, Senegal on the topic of Unicode and IDN in Africa.

See also:

• MINC
• .africa?

References

• ICANN, "Internationalized Domain Names," http://www.icann.org/topics/idn.html
• Wikipedia
  • EN "Internationalized domain name," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
  • FR "Nom de domaine internationalisé" https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nom_de_domaine_internationalisé