How does i-DNS work?
i-DNS internationalises and updates the existing Domain Name System (DNS). The DNS works by linking easy-to-understand, hierarchical names for host computers to unique numerical network addresses. However, to be recognised by the DNS, the names must be registered using the ASCII character set, which cannot be used directly to describe many languages other than English. i-DNS technology converts native language encoding to ASCII characters using a conversion process. In this way, iDNS is “backward compatible” with the existing DNS. Based on Unicode, the technology supports all legacy encoding standard, including GBK, BIG5, Shift-JIS, EUC-KR (widely used in China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea respectively), ISO-8859 standard (used in European and Middle East) and Windows CodePages (used in localized Windows 3.1 and 95 system). In addition, it also supports UTF-8 (used in Windows 98/2000/ME, Internet Explorer, Netscape 6) and various others ACE such as RACE, LACE, DUDE, AMC-ACE-Z and UTF-8.
