Com and net IDNs are in the production zones.
That means the Web pages are just out of date? They still refer to the testbed. Specifically, on
http://www.verisign.com/products-services/naming-and-directory-services/naming-services/internationalized-domain-names/idn-standards/verisign-idn-testbed/index.html
it says "VeriSign’s IDN Testbed is in Phase 3.2."
If you just used some Web interface to find out whether it has not been registered yet, and could be, then you probably have used a Web interface which does not implement the Verisign policy correctly.
I am unclear as to what VeriSign policy you are referring to here.
There seem to be multiple. For example, on
http://www.verisign.com/products-services/naming-and-directory-services/naming-services/internationalized-domain-names/idn-standards/idn-character-variants/page_001485.html
Verisign refers to phases wrt. registration. For phase III (for which I don't know whether it is in place yet), Verisign says
"all IDN registrations will require a valid language tag."
It then refers to language tables. Although it is not fully clear what the purpose of the language tables is (potentially beyond generating character variants), it appears that the intention also is to constrain labels to only use a subset of the allowed characters. For example, the table for Polish refers to draft-bartosiewicz-idn-pltld-07.txt, which constrains the set of allowed characters in .PL. So I would assume that a registration which uses POL as the language tag can only use the characters listed in that internet draft.
What language tag should I use when I want to register a domain that contains TILDE OPERATOR?
Regards, Martin
