I'd like to register a .com domain name that contains the spanish letter í.
On godaddy, I get a "Invalid domain name syntax" error. On www.nic.mx (NIC México) I get an error message asking me to check the spelling.
I'm using a Mac with a US english keypad.
Is it possible to register and use a domain, .com or otherwise, with diacritical marks?
If not, is there a standardized way of representing the marked letters?
Thanks.
It's no big deal for me, I can work around it for my project. I imagine it's a pain for folks with different alphabets.
Thanks.
For instance, the draft of Namespaces in XML 1.1 mentions them.
I expect this would then cascade onto support for XHTML+.
[w3.org ]
You could use those characters now, in sub domains, so long as they were %'d
On some machines I'd then expect you would see
ht*p://www.example.org/ros%c3%a9
on others you may already see the diacritic marks/characters as intended.
As I understand it, you will in future be able to then have chinese/japanese/any Unicode character in your URI's.
I doubt you can register the domains yet, although if you did register
ht*p://www.exampleros%c3%a9.com/ would that inevitably be examplerose(/).com?.. maybe % aren't allowed in domains.. don't know.
On a completely other note, I would still recommend not doing so, unless you're 110% sure that anyone who will ever, for whatever reason, visit this page, will be able to type the domain name.
Still, it might cause problems in some browsers/OSs.
On a more technical note, in reality you're not registering 'åäö.se' (or .com or whatever) -- you're registering 'aaaeoe.se', which is the standardised way of representing those letters. So, yes, there is a way to do so... But that might cause confusion as well. If I were you, I'd stick with just a regular 'i'.
I've gone ahead and registered a name using the standard 26 letters. It think it should work out fine.
- Utica
If you have registered "straße.com" no one can register "strasse.com" since it's the same domain name... :)
