Sage-Tips

Can domain names have Unicode characters?

A: Domain names, such as “macchiati.blogspot.com”, were originally designed only to support ASCII characters. In 2003, a specification was released that allows most Unicode characters to be used in domain names.

Can you use symbols in domain names?

Domain names can only use letters, numbers, the fada character (acute accent) and hyphens (“-“). Spaces and other symbols are not permitted for use. Names cannot begin or end with a hyphen and are not case sensitive.

Can you use special characters in domain?

You can use letters, numbers and the hyphen “-” in a domain name. Unfortunately, special characters like, “_! @#$\%^&*,” are not allowed. Domain names cannot contain spaces or begin or end with a hyphen.

Can domain names have non ASCII characters?

Although the Domain Name System supports non-ASCII characters, applications such as e-mail and web browsers restrict the characters which can be used as domain names for purposes such as a hostname. An IDNA-enabled application is able to convert between the internationalized and ASCII representations of a domain name.

What is DNS IDN?

Internationalized Domain Names ( IDNs ) enable people around the world to use domain names in local languages and scripts. IDNs are formed using characters from different scripts, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic or Devanagari. These are encoded by the Unicode standard and used as allowed by relevant IDN protocols.

Can websites have symbols?

Symbols, Spaces or Underscores Numbers and hyphens are the only symbols allowed in your domain name. Spaces and underscores are not allowed, along with the symbols listed below.

Can domain names have spaces?

Since spaces cannot be used in a domain name, some people buy domain names with embedded hyphens instead. That is, since they can’t have a domain like ” multiple words in this domain as an example.com “, they use ” multiple-words-in-this-domain-as-an-example.com ” instead.

What punctuation is allowed in domain names?

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A domain name can only contain the letters A-Z, the digits 0-9 and hyphen (-), in addition to one punctuation (.) used for grouping the domains in hierarchies, e.g. under . no or .com.

Can you use Unicode in a URL?

Unicode characters are forbidden as per the RFC on URLs (see here). They would have to be percent encoded to be standards compliant. My main point, though, is serving the unencoded characters for the sole purpose of having nice-looking URLs, so percent encoding is out.