What is iClient? What is iResolve? What is its usage?

Let's begin by referring to "here"

"iClient is a free Windows plug-in software that enables the use of multilingual domain names and e-mail addresses. It resides in your system tray and automatically detects and converts non-English character requests into the format used for registration and resolution.

Upon installation, you will be able to access websites using its hosted multilingual domain name and communicate with friends using multilingual e-mail addresses."

Before enter further, let me to clear some ideas:

What is DNS? what is IDN? what does i-DNS do?

DNS stands for Domain Name System, which convert domain name into corresponding IP address. For example, when you type "hongbing.net" and press enter key in Internet Explorer, computer try to find the IP address for "hongbing.net" by sending DNS query to DNS server. Thus, DNS is like a dictionary, which could map from domain name to IP address.

IDN refers to International Domain Name. From its name, it should support other languages domain name including ASCII/English domain name. A lot of non-English countries will benefit from this technology.

i-DNS is a US company, which involved the R&D of IDN solution. It started in 1997 and till 2001,it build a completed IDN solution. It entered and got big deal from China in 2002. It is the only leading IDN solution company in the world.

i-DNS' IDN solution consists of two parts: Servers and Clients. Server part (in Unix) includes Registry tool and service, Registrar tool (RIB) with payment gateway integrated. Client part (Windows) include iClient, iResolve and CCode tool.

Registry tools: manage IDN data entries --Add/Remove/Edit

Registry service: also iBIND, modified from BIND by i-DNS, run as a daemon to resolve 8-bit clean DNS query, is the central program in IDN server

Registrar tool in box (RIB): End users use it to registry International (multilingual) domain names, manage their accounts, process payment via payment gateway and so on

iClient, convert IDN URL and Email Address to ASCII URL and Email address from Internet Explorer, Netscape, Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape mail, Eudora and even web email sites in Internet Explorer.

iResolve, an alternative client software of iClient, is a Brower Help Object (BHO), but provides closer to integrate with Internet Explorer,

CCode, a handy diagnostic software of encoding conversion.

iClient system design

According the development of Internet, more and more people begin to use it. However, most of them do not speak English and they need their own language, including domain name, when they browsing Internet.

iClient is a client-side-resident software which hooks the DNS events and URL strings, converts the ML URL strings to i-dns.net’s specified standard URL strings and sends them to DNS server to resolve (figure 1).

	Registry tools: manage IDN data entries --Add/Remove/Edit
	Registry service: also iBIND, modified from BIND by i-DNS, run as a daemon to resolve 8-bit clean DNS query, is the central program in IDN server
	Registrar tool in box (RIB): End users use it to registry International (multilingual) domain names, manage their accounts, process payment via payment gateway and so on
	iClient, convert IDN URL and Email Address to ASCII URL and Email address from Internet Explorer, Netscape, Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape mail, Eudora and even web email sites in Internet Explorer.
	iResolve, an alternative client software of iClient, is a Brower Help Object (BHO), but provides closer to integrate with Internet Explorer,
	CCode, a handy diagnostic software of encoding conversion.