The Top-Level Domain (TLD) for Xia men wang is written as xn—jlq480n2rg in the ASCII character domain notation. It converts to the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) 福建.网络 or .xn—jlq480n2rg. This domain name is one of many that employs the Punycode translation system to convert words and phrases that don’t use the basic Latin script into a format that can be understood by the Domain Name System (DNS).
To further explain, Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) were created to make the internet more accessible for people who use non-Latin scripts for their languages. IDNs use a special encoding — known as Punycode — that allows them to be represented in ASCII format, which the DNS, designed to handle only Latin script, can understand. The Punycode translates the non-Latin script domain name into a name that starts with the prefix “xn—”, followed by characters that represent the original Unicode characters.
The TLD xn—jlq480n2rg is a Chinese IDN managed by the Xiamen 35.Com Technology Co., Ltd. This domain was first delegated to its current manager by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) in February 2017, following a fast track review process as outlined by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).
The xn—jlq480n2rg TLD, like other country-specific TLDs, is intended to cater to websites and online content aimed at a country or specific geographic region — in this case, the Fujian region of China, as 福建.网络 translates to Fujian Network.
For example, a website using this domain could be a local business in Fujian, providing information about their goods or services in the domain www.goodsprovider.xn—jlq480n2rg, which in Chinese would be presented as www.goodsprovider.福建.网络.
Online sources that can be used to explore more about TLDs include ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) which manages the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources. Another resource is the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which coordinates the distribution of unique identifiers on the internet.
References:
1. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (https://www.icann.org/)
2. IANA, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (https://www.iana.org/)
3. The Unicode Consortium (https://unicode.org/faq/idn.html)
4. Punycode Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode)
5. IANA — .福建 delegation record (https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/xn—jlq480n2rg.html)
