diff --git a/data/.gitignore b/data/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4eb35a915
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+/ietf_utf8.bin.tar.bz2
+/ietf_utf8.sql.gz
+/mysql