Google Webmaster Tools Now Supports Non-English Domains

The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced that they now officially support adding non-English domain names to Google Webmaster Central.

So if you have a domain that looks like http://北京大学.cn, you will be able to add it and very the site in Google Webmaster Tools. Now Google supports Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) within the tool. If you used a workaround in the past, you do not have to update anything. Google will do that for you.

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