Are .INFO IDNs standards compliant?

Yes. .INFO IDNs are completely compliant with the IETF IDN standards and adheres closely to the Robustness Principle, as well as the ICANN IDN guidelines from the start. Registrants (via registrars) will have to declare the intended language (script) of the IDN to be registered, as consistent with the ICANN IDN guidelines; and the registry will accept IDN registrations in Punycode (the IETF standard ACE encoding for IDN).

Afilias is rolling out IDN registrations in a controlled manner that is consistent with the ICANN IDN guidelines in order to ensure that the linguistic context and relevance of IDN registrations have been reasonably taken into consideration and are sensitive to the intended communities.