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Additional
internationalized domain name
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Internationalized domain name
An
internationalized domain name
(
IDN
) is an
Internet
domain name
that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or
alphabet
, such as
Arabic
,
Chinese
,
Cyrillic
,
Tamil
,
Hebrew
or the
Latin alphabet
-based characters with
diacritics
or ligatures, such as
French
. These
writing systems
are encoded by computers in multi-
byte
Unicode
. Internationalized domain names are stored in the
Domain Name System
as
ASCII
strings using
Punycode
transcription.
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