IDNs for .eu

Starting 10 December 2009, companies and private persons based in the European Union will be able to register .eu Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs).

IDNs are domain names that contain non-ASCII characters. These characters include, for example, the Swedish å, the German ü, the Romanian ș and characters from the Bulgarian and Greek alphabets as a whole.

IDNs are particularly important for .eu as the European Union has 27 Member States and 23 official languages. Many of these languages have non-ASCII characters in their alphabets.

WHOIS Search

  • Is the domain name you want available? Enter the name to find out. You can also enter an ACE string to check if it converts to a valid IDN.
  • Find a registrar to register your IDN.

To find out exactly which non-ASCII characters will be supported by .eu, see our supported character list. There are also some technical limitations which apply to IDNs. You can read more about those rules here.

For more details on IDNs, see our FAQ section.

Legal statement

The IDN checker allows you to see if a specific Internationalised Domain Name (IDN) is valid. A valid IDN is a name that does not violate the technical limitations for IDNs.

To see if a valid IDN is available for registration, you must search the .eu WHOIS database.

Please note, the IDN checker is provided for information purposes only. EURid cannot, under any circumstances, be held liable should the IDN checker prove to be wrong, incomplete or inaccurate in any sense.