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As you may have heard, China recently changed the rules for .CN domain registrations blocking overseas registrars, excluding individuals from registering a domain name and requiring extensive documentation from businesses before domains are accepted. Thus, we have removed the .CN domain extension from our website completely until further notice.

If you would like to secure your online identity in China, we recommend registering a .COM / .NET Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) or soon to be available .ORG IDNs with Chinese characters instead. The registry for .ORG, PIR, is allowing IDNs with the Chinese and Traditional Chinese character sets from January 23rd 2010, 19:00 UTC. Please note that .ORG Chinese IDNs registered in the first 30 days, will have restriction placed upon them by the registry to allow for intellectual property interests to file UDRP actions if warranted. You will not be able to delete, transfer or update a domain during this time.

Chinese character .ORG domains can be registered through our standard domain search which is already fully IDN enabled.

中文国际域名 (IDNs) .ORG 很快开放

中国当局最近更改了.CN 域名注册规则。由于这些变更我们不得不暂时将 .CN 域名从我们的网站上移除。但是，如果阁下希望确保您在中国的在线身份，我们建议阁下用中文汉字注册 .COM / .NET 域名。同时 .ORG 域名也将作为国际域名 (IDN) 很快开放。敦请阁下注意，中文 IDNs 的 .ORG 域名自注册之日起30天内会受到限制。期间您将无法删除，传输或者上传。中文汉字域名 .ORG 可以通过我们的带有完整 IDN 功能的标准域名搜索来注册。例如 阳光.org

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):

• .AT - Austria (supported characters)
• .AC - Ascension Island (IDN Policy)
• .CC - Cocos & Keeling Islands (nearly all languages and character sets - more information)
• .CH - Switzerland (supported characters)
• .CN - China (Simplified or Traditional Chinese)
• .DE - Germany (supported characters)
• .DK - Denmark (æ, ø, å, ö, ä, ü, and/or é)
• .ES - Spain (supported characters)
• .IO - British Indian Ocean Territory (IDN Policy)
• .JP - Japan (Kanji, Hiragana & Katakana)
• .LA - Laos (supported languages)
• .LI - Liechtenstein (supported characters)
• .NU - Niue (All Western and Eastern European languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic, Hindi, Thai, Lao, etc. - see all supported languages)
• .PL - Poland (more information)
• .SH - Saint Helena (IDN Policy)
• .TV - Tuvalu (nearly all languages and character sets - more information)
• .TW - Taiwan (Simplified or Traditional Chinese)
• .WS - Western Samoa

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.