What are IDN domain names?

Tim (septus at trickfly.com)

It stands for Internationalized Domain Name and what it means is basically a domain name with foreign characters allowed (in short).

(on a side note, did you know you spelled medieval wrong?)

Correct, with the native support from web browsers we will see an increased use of foreign characters in domain names during the next years.

There are many IDN domain auctions running ATM.

shopperx

Internationalized Domain Name