ICANN created an experimental set of top-level internationalized domain names in October 2007 for the purpose of testing the use of Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) in the root zone and within those domains. ICANN announced that these domains would be removed from the root zone of the Domain Name System effective on 31 October 2013. They no longer resolve but are still listed in the IANA Root Zone Database. Each of these TLDs names encoded a word meaning "test" in the respective language.
The zone file for each of these domains contained only one second-level name, encoding the word "example" in the respective script and language. Each example.test name resolved to a host where ICANN operated a test wiki on behalf of the corresponding user community. IDN Test TLDs
DNS NameIDNTransliterationLanguageScript URL of the test site(archived at the Wayback Machine)xn--kgbechtv ik͡htibār Arabic Arabic xn--hgbk6aj7f53bba ậzmạy̰sẖy Persian Perso-Arabic xn--0zwm56d cèshì Chinese Simplified Chinese http:// xn--g6w251d cèshì Chinese Traditional Chinese xn--80akhbyknj4f ispytánije Russian Cyrillic xn--11b5bs3a9aj6g parīkṣā Hindi Devanagari http:// xn--jxalpdlp dokimé Greek Greek http:// xn--9t4b11yi5a teseuteu Korean Hangul http:// xn--deba0ad test Yiddish Hebrew http:// xn--zckzah tesuto Japanese Katakanahttp:// , the domain of test page, contains also Kanji (Chinese character in Japanese: ) and Hiragana (). See also Japanese writing system. http:// xn--hlcj6aya9esc7a pariṭcai Tamil Tamil http://
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