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International characters in domains - IDN

How to add an IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) domain in cPanel.

Say you want to add domain οικοδεσπότης-γάτορ.gr to your cPanel, its going to give you a nice error about special characters.

What you will need to do is get the Punycode (ACE) version of the domain, it would have a xn-- prefix.

A site you can use to encode this for you is http://www.idnstuff.com/

For οικοδεσπότης-γάτορ.gr the Punycode version is xn----plbucfmli7bcghsvcof1l.gr

Then just add xn----plbucfmli7bcghsvcof1l.gr as an addon/parked domain in cPanel.

This will also work when signing up for a hosting account. Just sign up with domain xn----plbucfmli7bcghsvcof1l.gr and your Greek characters should work!

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Oli
will it then resolve as οικοδεσπότης-γάτορ.gr or as xn----plbucfmli7bcghsvcof1l.gr

The problem is that most Cpanel hosts resolve as xn----plbucfmli7bcghsvcof1l.gr and that is the reason I tend to stay away from them.
Posted: September 22, 2009
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The name will stay as οικοδεσπότης-γάτορ.gr in your visitor's browser.

It will only show as xn----plbucfmli7bcghsvcof1l.gr inside cPanel.
Posted: September 23, 2009
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Posted: December 13, 2011 (Global Reply)
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