Post #2275702

2026-05-02 05:56 UTC

What’s with the sketchy domain name? Doesn’t really instill trust enough for me to click on let alone listen to their opinion.

Replies (4)

@celia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-02 06:10

This is puny code, and allows for non ascii characters to be used as a domain name. Your lemmy client probably does not convert it to unicode and displays it as a random looking text en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

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@elvith@feddit.org 2026-05-02 06:12

If the domain starts with xn- it’s a telltale sign, that it’s a punycode domain name. Read: it does contain characters that are not ASCII characters. This is done as domains need to be ASCII only. The format of these domains is usually xn–allASCIIcharacters-allNonASCIIcharactersEncoded.tld. Example: täst.com is xn–tst-qla.com. If you manually type such a domain (containing characters like äöüéèçč…), many browsers will still display what you entered, but convert the domain into punycode in the background before connecting. You can decode the domain of this post and it results in マリウス.com.

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@Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2026-05-02 06:12

It’s just a punycode domain, it ought be rendered in Japanese: マリウス.com Edit: I swear those replies weren’t there when I typed mine.

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@TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-02 10:31

they even have a blog post telling you to never click domains that look like the domain of the blog :D

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