Previewing or connecting to an IDN domain

You can preview or connect to a domain using its IDN or ASCII-encoded representation.

- Important: If your application is not IDN-compliant, you must use the ASCII-encoded representation of the domain name to access the domain. To view the ASCII-encoded representation, click the link show text name next to the IDN.

# Previewing an IDN domain using IDN representation

Your Web browser must be IDN-compatible to enable domain previews using its IDN representation.

To preview a domain:

In the Address field of your Internet browser, enter the following URL:

http://<server IP address>/<idn_domain_name>.com/

where:

- <server IP address> is the control panel server's IP address

- <idn_domain_name> is the fully qualified IDN representation of the domain

## Example

To preview the domain fargbolaget.nu hosted on the server 1.2.3.4, type:

http://1.2.3.4/fargbolaget.nu/

# Previewing an IDN domain using ASCII-encoded representation

If your Web browser is not IDN-compatible, you can preview a domain using its ASCII-encoded representation.

To preview a domain using its ASCII-encoded representation:

In the Address field of your Internet browser, enter the following URL:

http://<server IP address>/<ascii_domain_name>.com/

where:

- <server IP address> is the control panel server's IP address

- <ascii_domain_name> is the fully qualified ASCII-encoded representation of the domain

## Example

To preview the domain fargbolaget.nu hosted on the server 1.2.3.4 using its ASCII-encoded representation xn--frgbolaget-q5a.nu, type:

http://1.2.3.4/xn--frgbolaget-q5a.nu/

# Connecting to an IDN domain using IDN representation

Your Web browser must be IDN-compatible to connect to a domain using its IDN representation, otherwise you will be unable to connect to the domain.

To connect to a domain using its IDN representation:

In the Address field of the Web browser, type the domain name.

For example:

http://<idn_domain_name.com>/

where <idn_domain_name.com> is the IDN representation of the domain name

## Example

To connect to the domain fargbolaget.nu, type:

http://fargbolaget.nu/

# Connecting to an IDN domain using ASCII-encoded representation

If your Web browser is not IDN-compatible, you can connect to a domain using its ASCII-encoded representation.

To connect to a domain name using its ASCII-encoded representation:

In the Address field of the Web browser, type the ASCII-encoded representation of the domain name.

For example:

http://<ascii_domain_name.com>/

where <ascii_domain_name.com> is the ASCII-encoded representation of the domain name

## Example

To connect to the domain fargbolaget.nu using its ASCII-encoded representation xn--frgbolaget-q5a.nu, type:

http://xn--frgbolaget-q5a.nu/