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It’s not often you get a free lunch, usually there’s a catch. But not with this.

Ever since I acquired IDNTools, there’s been a ton of things I wanted to do with it – relocate it to a fast server, give it a new skin, improve the toolset (particularly the IDN droplist), change the icons, new logo and so on.. I’m lucky, I have a great partner and a healthy budget, and it’s all coming soon.

But back to the free lunch..

I’ve been IDNing for years now, and I pretty much know what works well, what works kinda, and what sucks – and one thing that has frustrated me for a long time is the lack of an intuitive Punycode tool.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a bunch of them out there, but I haven’t found THE ONE.

Being able to convert native language domains to and from Punycode is the staple diet of any IDN domainer – lets face it, we find ourselves doing it many times a day.

For me the perfect Punycode tool needs to tick the following boxes:

• I want to be able to convert just 1 or many domains
• I want to be able to enter either a Unicode (native text) or a Punycode and have the tool just convert it the other way around
• I want to be able to enter terms with or without an extension
• I want to be able to easily copy the results (I don’t want to have to copy the original and converted just because it’s all in one table and then somehow work out how to separate the 2 columns
• I want to be able to quickly clear the selection and start over
• I want to be able to convert hundreds/thousands at a time
• I want it to be quick

..and I want it to be free


IDNTools is now running on a super fast server, and I think we now have the perfect Punycode tool. Built by IDNers for IDNers. Bookmark it.

reposted from IDNdemystified