That is how the names are represented to the DNS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#Top-level_domain_implementation http://en.wikipedia

That is how the names are represented to the DNS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#Top-level_domain_implementation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#T... I believe this is abstracted at the browser level.