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It's Māori Language Week in New Zealand and on this occasion we're very proud to announce support for Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) at iWantMyName. Indigenous groups around the world are looking seriously at how best to protect their digital identity, as the Internet continues to impact powerfully in both in economic and sociological terms. Providing Internationalised Domain Names not only for the use of Māori language domains but non-Latin characters in general is a small but significant step towards preserving the expression of language and culture online.

Internationalised Domain Names can be accessed in any modern web browser such as Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer (> Version 7.0 which is another reaseon why IE 6 must die).

IDNs at iWantMyName are currently supported in the following domain extensions.

Generic top-level domains:

  • .COM, .NET (nearly all languages and character sets - more information)
  • .ORG (Spanish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean (Hangul), Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Swedish, Spanish, Chinese)
  • .INFO (Danish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Swedish, Spanish)
  • .BIZ (Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Finnish, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese)

Country code top-level domains (in alphabetical order):

See our domain search with IDNs in action:

http://iwantmyname.com/search?domain=māori
http://iwantmyname.com/search?domain=überümlaut
http://iwantmyname.com/search?domain=任提谋
There's a lot of buzz around the Facebook Vanity URL launch this weekend where you will be able to register your username such as facebook.com/username instead of having a long profile address. Of course it will be nice to have your name on Facebook, we will try and get our names too. But not everybody is excited and the whole story shows the dilemma that people are facing when it comes to owning who you are online. Do you really want Facebook (or MySpace, Twitter, etc.) to be your primary address identifier for other people? All these services are currently battling over your identity but what if you don't like Facebook anymore in 2 years, the Twitpocalypse is upon us or MySpace mysteriously vanishes?

The answer to these questions is simple: Own your personal domain name!


Domains are around since 25 years (!) now and there's no sign that they will go away anytime soon. A domain name is the only address that you can really own and control. You register it, you pay for it and you use it the way you want. It's as simple as that. And even if you are not planning to use it right now, it's really a must have for every internet user.

Special Offer

We have the best domain extensions for owning your online identity on special! All new .COM, .NET, .ORG, .NAME, .INFO domain registrations are only $9.90 USD, .IM (I am) & .TEL domains at $14.90 USD and .ME for $19 USD - valid until June 30th, 2009.

See our complete list of domain extensions for more details.

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