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Ask HN: Are Punycode Domains Indexable?

4•chamaloriz•3mo ago
I'm building a website for my personal projects on xn--tkc.net and I'm wondering it's a good idea to use a Punycode domain even if it looks great, the shortcut for it is 3ronds.net.

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p_ing•3mo ago
Yes, they can be indexed. When configuring a crawler you use the punycode domain.
phillipseamore•3mo ago
It will be indexed but IDNs are usually shown as their punycode version everywhere so that can make them unrecognizable or look untrustworthy. Because of this IDNs are mostly useless except when you need to support a user writing e.g. españa.com and forwarding them to espana.com.
gethly•3mo ago
> I'm wondering it's a good idea to use a Punycode domain

No, it is not. Exception could be a case where you have a large market/user base, like Chinese or Russian languages, but then you obviously completely cut out everyone else as no one else is able to type the domain name on their keyboard.

And it looks strange and untrustworthy, compared to basic latin.

So it depends :)

PS: obviously indexability has nothing to do with punycode.

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