How do I register a domain with special symbols or characters?

Daring Fireball tweeted:

‘We Don’t Lie to Google’: http://✪df.ws/e4f

I've been thinking about creating a url shortener and a short url similar to http://✪df.ws/ would be ideal as no one will ever have to manually type the symbol.

I tried to register a domain with a heart ♥ on a few of the more popular domain name registrars, but upon submitting I was told that the domain name contained invalid characters.

How do I search and register a domain with one 开发者_Python百科of these symbols or characters?

Check out Iwantmyname. It's possible for .WS and .LA as far as I know.

As mentioned above, an internationalized domain name (IDN) allows the inclusion of language-specific characters. You can use this tool to see how such names are mapped into regular ASCII domain names that begin with the special xn-- followed by regular characters, followed by an encoding to insert special characters within the regular ones. For example: xn--nol-kma.com is the ascii mapping of noël.com when the nol is the normal part and the kma specifies to insert the ë between the second and third characters of nol to give noël.

Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name. First of all, many characters are not permitted in IDNS. Secondly, the recent announcement is that registration will open for a limited set of IDNS names in a few months, not now.

You can't register with these characters on all domain-names, such as .com if Im not mistaken. You might want to look into .nu-names which I think allows those characters. It is really not that recommended though.

Well it’s possible to use special characters or symbols into a domain name, there are some stuff that your might know before using. There are some symbols like æ, å, ø, ä or ö which are known as “Punycode” an Internet standard. These characters are not identifiable for ordinary browser as it requires a specific browser package.

However it’s a complicated thing to implement and not beneficial at all. In normal condition, hyphen "-" is the only allowed character which is readable by any browser directly and is typically used to isolate two words in a domain name for example (best-domain.com). Some people remain confused in hyphen and underscore "_" but underscore or any other special character are not permitted. A domain name can be 67 characters long with 4 character domain extension.

You don't. Those are not valid characters for use in domain names currently.

we can get these domains by converting the ascii you want to punycode and all domain registrars suport punycode domains as they are just letters and dashes