A beta build of Domain Punch Professional v2 with support for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) is now available.

Click here to download Domain Punch Pro Build 08-27-2008 (beta).

Please see the previous blog entry for a screen shot and additional information.

You can add domain names or words in non-English languages and the software will accept these as valid domain names. When you do a whois or DNS lookup the software will automatically convert these into their Punycode format and then do the lookup.

Please note that other lookups like web visibility, trademark check etc. will not function properly for domain names in non English languages.

Support for IDN may be turned off from the "Config > App Settings" dialog. This may be required if you want to make sure that the software accepts only ASCII domain names.