How to buy a unicode domain name?

If you have seen Daring Firewall’s short URLs: http://✪df.ws/eko, or even http://☃.net/, then you’ll see why I’m blogging about my favorite new domain name: http://ᕮ.com/.

These kind of domains are called unicode domain names. They are basically unicode characters & when you hit the enter, they transform into puny codes. That’s it, nothing complicated.

So how do you buy a URL like this? Dear samsoff.es wrote a pretty long article about this. And here I’m giving you the short version:

• Find your unicode character from http://www.technology.heartland.edu/…/unicode.html
• Encode your character to puny code from http://idnaconv.phlymail.de
• Get your puny code (something like xn—rya) & go to GoDaddy Internationalized Domain Name Page. Yup, not every domain company will let you buy these domains.
• Write your code, select any country from the list… You know the rest.

P.s. My unicode character is working great on many systems, but not on some Windows versions. Since this is not something new, most of the unicode characters are already bought by others (one letter ones).

For those who cannot see my domain name: