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I put in my family name, which contains a letter with a diacritic mark. It showed every domain as "unavailable". I suggest normalizing to ASCII.

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Whoops, that's certainly an oversight. Thanks for pointing it out, will make sure that gets fixed :-)

You're welcome. I like the concept.

You might also want to check which TLDs support international domain names (IDNs) and which don't. The Czech TLD .cz, for example, doesn't[1], even though Czech is heavy on letters with them.

[1] https://www.xn--hkyrky-ptac70bc.cz/

Ah, TIL - had no idea :-) BTW, I deployed a fix which will hopefully fix the diacritic bug you mentioned in case you'd like to give it another go!

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