Create a new managed public zone with an IDN suffix
Cloud DNS lets you create a domain name by usingPunycode,
which some applications can recognize and render in an international
language-specific script.
To see how your domain name visually converts from Unicode characters to the
equivalent ASCII-Compatible Encoding (ACE) form, use theIDN converter tool.
To create a new managed zone with an IDN suffix, complete the following steps.
Console
In the Google Cloud console, go to theCreate a DNS zonepage.
Enter aDNS namesuffix in Punycode format for the zone by using a
domain name that you own.
For example, for the domain name to appear asexample.ελ, use the IDN
representation ofελfor the suffix, which is.xn--qxam. All records
in the zone share this suffix.
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