I mean, wouldn’t it be great to register go!.com or where?.com. Well, there is a way, read on.
I have already talked in here about IDN domains and how they offer some great potential for being kind of new and still unknown for some Domainers.
When deciding which characters would be accepted or not, ICANN’s Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Committee relied on the UNICODE consortium database.
For deeper info see the Guidelines for the Implementation of Internationalized Domain final document. Where it says “All code points in a single label will be taken from the same script as determined by the Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24”
Of course characters like “?” or “!” were left out and are not accepted on IDN registrations. So, is this a misleading title? No, hold on, there’s still a way and I am getting there next.
Spanish, one of the top 5 speaking languages on the world, and has a very awkward way to write exclamations and questions. Spanish speaking people put the question and exclamation marks inverted on the beginning of the sentence.
And, guess what? These inverted marks were NOT marked as punctuation for the Unicode Consortium, they were considered a regular character.
Thus, it is possible to Register Spanish IDN Domains which include the Spanish keys exclamation point ( ¡ ) and the Spanish keys question mark ( ¿ ). Example: ¿futbol.com. Both ( ¡ ) and ( ¿ ) are default keys on the Spanish keyboard, which means every Spanish speaking Internet user on the World would be able to use them.
So, go grab them while they last…
“Spanish speaking people put the question and exclamation marks inverted on the beginning of the sentence.”
Well, i think english speakers use to miss the question mark on the begining of the sentence…
It depends on your point of view.