Host-request from your HTTP-headers: idn.ter.dk -- For http://æøå.idn.ter.dk/ : 1. Mozilla requests "xn--5cab8c.idn.ter.dk", which follows the IDN-standard. 1b. Choose "View source", and Mozilla (<= v1.7) requests "%c3%a6%c3%b8%c3%a5.idn.ter.dk", which is an URL-encoded version of "æøå.idn.ter.dk" - which again is a UTF8-encoded version of "æøå.idn.ter.dk"! 2. Internet Explorer - without IDN-plugin - requests "æøå.idn.ter.dk". -- Your HTTP-headers: GET / HTTP/1.1 x-cc-id: ccc01-02 Host: idn.ter.dk User-Agent: CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html) Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,text/xml;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: close Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache