I thought it was not possible to have a domain name that contained anything else but alphanumeric characters, dashes and hyphens.

So would anyone please explain this to me:
www.§.com

The URL actually works! In safari, it actually even stays unchanged in the address bar. Did I not understand something about the Domain Names rules?

oh yeah nifty
what else can you have?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...ed_domain_name

Interesting. I remember seeing certain domains in arabic characters too, pretty neat. There would be some very uncompetitive keywords!

I believe that with the such questions better go to the ICCAN to leave all doubts to go ahead

international domain names .

Not really sure they have much value but have seen some sell for a decent price.

also there are normally some on ebay

international domain names .

Yes IDN domain names are quite specific and have distinctions. On the Namepos whole forum section is for it and you can read about it there