1. A method comprising: receiving an international domain name, the international domain name having a format that is noncompliant with a name resolver format; translating a system character code representation of the international domain name to a generalized representation of the international domain name; applying a restricted mapping to the generalized representation of the international domain name to create a compliant domain name; identifying a root server from the generalized representation of the international domain name; appending redirector information associated with the root server to the compliant domain name to create a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN); and passing the FQDN to a name resolver.