As you know internationalized domain names (IDN) are domain names that contains non-ASCII characters. Such domain names could contain letters with diacritics, as required by many European languages, or characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese.
Because all good ascii domains are now long gone and ie7 now fully supports internationalized domains, the IDN registration and aftermarket has been a real gold rush. Check forums like IDNForums or DNlocal to see what I mean.
Hence, almost all IDN are also now gone. However, and making use of the right trickery, you can *still* find some great names available! This is the first of a series of posts to expose the best tricks on how to do it.
Afilias and PIR (Public Interest Registry) only allows you to register IDN domains on the following languages: Danish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Swedish. How about the other top languages like French, Spanish or Portuguese?
Well, like everyone you’ll have to wait, or you can be a Black Hat Domainer regular reader. ;)
As you know, French, Spanish and Portuguese languages use accents on many of its words. AND, some of these accents are common to some of the allowed languages! Icelandic or Hungarian share the same accented characters as French, Spanish or Portuguese.
So, you can register a top domain like México.info, selecting Hungarian language. Of course México is Spanish, but Afilias and PIR can’t do anything because the “é” character is also common to the Hungarian language!
Where can you do this? At any registrar that supports .org and .info IDNs, like DynaDot. But… hurry up! The race is on!