The .org registry will be offering Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) on March 3, 2007, on a first come first served basis. IDNs means the ability to use characters from any language (e.g., á, ç, è) in a domain name. Originally the Domain Name system (DNS), which links text-based Web site names to numeric IP addresses and allows computers to locate Web sites, was more or less initially limited to the characters used in English and the ASCII character set.

Technical standards have been adopted to enable the registration of IDNs or Domains that are represented by native language, non-ASCII characters using Punycode, which is a simple and efficient way of translating non-ASCII characters into a string of characters allowed in host name labels (ASCII letters, digits and hyphens) and back again.

In order to allow for intellectual property interests to file UDRP actions all Spanish IDNs registered between March 3 and April 2 will be locked until May 2, 2007.