Internationalized domain names

Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet

Punycode is a representation of Unicode with the limited ASCII character subset used for Internet hostnames. Using Punycode, host names containing Unicode characters are transcoded to a subset of ASCII consisting of letters, digits, and hyphens, which is called the letter–digit–hyphen (LDH) subset. For example, the German München (English: Munich) is encoded as Mnchen-3ya.

special type of top-level domain

using visually similar characters in domain names to deceive users

The Arabic top-level domain (meaning ".web", and transcribed into English as ".shabaka") is an internationalized domain name top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet for Arabic language websites. Websites using the domain can be accessed using its U-label () or A-label equivalent ().