ICANN has announced that a few test domains have been established
with non-ASCII domain names. Many press reports mention this.
None of them say what the domain are. Is there a page somewhere
with links to them, against which one can test?

John Nagle
SiteTruth

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:35:25 -0700, in comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
(message <QhMPi.2851$Pv2.2707@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net> ), John Nagle
<nagle@animats.com> wrote:

> ICANN has announced that a few test domains have been established
> with non-ASCII domain names. Many press reports mention this.
> None of them say what the domain are. Is there a page somewhere
> with links to them, against which one can test?

Yes. Read the ICANN plan, available at
http://icann.org/topics/idn/idn-eval...-2-14aug07.pdf.
But, for instance, this one is working for me right now:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> @dns1.icann.org -t SOA xn--kgbechtv
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54275
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;xn--kgbechtv. IN SOA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
xn--kgbechtv. 1200 IN SOA dns1.icann.org.
postmaster.icann.org. 2007100900 43200 3600 1209600 172800

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
xn--kgbechtv. 1200 IN NS a.iana-servers.net.
xn--kgbechtv. 1200 IN NS b.iana-servers.net.
xn--kgbechtv. 1200 IN NS c.iana-servers.net.
xn--kgbechtv. 1200 IN NS ns.icann.org.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.iana-servers.net. 21600 IN A 192.0.34.43
b.iana-servers.net. 21600 IN A 193.0.0.236
c.iana-servers.net. 21600 IN A 139.91.1.10
ns.icann.org. 21600 IN A 192.0.34.126

;; Query time: 85 msec
;; SERVER: 192.0.34.17#53(192.0.34.17)
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 12 12:04:06 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 236

Regards,

Andrew Sullivan
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