The Denmark-based company said the domain names would be represented by native language characters followed by .com, .net or .org.
For instance, Denmark's business daily Borsen will be able to register its URL as www.bØrsen.com. The price--between US$60 to US$70 for two years, said Speednames vice president (global marketing) Martin Roll when contacted.
However, on the flipside, Internet users outside Europe would have to change their keyboard settings to get the European language characters of their choice.
"The new multi-lingual domain names in these characters are obviously not made for people who access the Internet from Asia," Roll admitted. "It's primarily for people in Europe."
"But in Denmark for instance, we have the three letters--Ø, Å, Æ--available on the keyboard and also in the software packages in the country," he added.
The registration for the multi-lingual domain names is expected to start from February 26, according to VeriSign Global Registry Services. VeriSign is in charge of Internet domain names ending in .com, .net and .org.
Roll said in an earlier statement that Speednames expects the new offering to "spread rapidly first across Europe".
Last November, the company told Singapore.CNET.com in an interview that it struck a deal with search engine Lycos Asia, 366.net of Taiwan and Chinese Domain Service of China to provide multi-lingual domain registration.
The deal allowed the companies to provide domain name registration services in Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
Established in 1999, Speednames provides a one-stop shop for registering generic domains (.com, .net and .org) as well as domains ending with various country codes (.sg, .nz, .uk or .ch for instance).
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