Sometimes people get overlooked & I wanted to take a chance to give a plug to a few people that could make a difference fore IDN Investors.

1. André Schapp from Loughborough University. I’ve seen his name before & lots of interesting questions about IDNs & their use over the net. Everything I saw him write has been about functionalty & use of IDNs (I’m with you man). IDNs are not just about buying & selling especially right now. This is a man that’s making a difference.
Read his blog & follow him on twitter from these links.
He’s even already picked up a couple of my current development projects.
http://schappo.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/andreschappo
http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~coas/international-computing/IDNs.html

2. Raphaël BERRHOUN – Developer of a fix for the Google Map API for IDNs.
http://www.france-development.com/
I also noticed he has almost all the dot nets of my Japanese hotel portfolio & he actually has them developed to.
The link to his wordpress plugin is here
http://www.france-development.com/en/2010/01/20/google-maps-v3-for-idn-2/

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3. David Wright
Developer of a plug for WordPress which allows you to use the native domain instead of the punycode in your site.
http://www.dwright.us/misc/idna/
http://www.dwright.us

These guys are truly making strides & I personally appreciate their efforts.