Monthly Archives: May 2017

IDN Addon Domain Issue

We had been working on adding an IDN addon domain in cPanel and received invalid domain name.

Internationalized domain name – Wikipedia
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

Domain cannot be added directly in cPanel because domain contains at least one label

Domain Name : lamé.com

We need to use below converter to convert the IDN to ASCII

http://idna-converter.com/?decoded=lam%C3%A9.com&encoded=&doencode=Encode+%3E%3E

Unicode url/domain: lamé.com

ASCII/Punycode (ACE) : xn--lam-dma.com

Once domain is converted in ASC can be added in cPanel.

Adding International Character domain in cpanel

To add international characters as domain name in cpanel

First it need to be converted to unicode to punycode using http://idna-converter.com/

Once done the domain name can be added accordingly