[j4_james]

I've had an international domain since 2006, and the sad truth is they still aren't widely supported 10 years later (the fuckyeahmarkdown website being a case in point). I don't think people are deliberately filtering out those characters - they just aren't aware that such names are even possible.

In the beginning I used to file bug reports whenever I encountered websites that couldn't handle my domain, but I eventually resigned myself to the fact that most people just don't care. Nowadays I don't even bother trying the unicode most of the time, and just use the punycode version instead.