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Also GREAT if you're trying to identify untaken phishing domain names to register for your next scam!

• sheraz 11y ago
  wouldn't you end up with the 'xn--' ascii expansion in the url window?
  • sschueller 11y ago
    Most modern browser will show you the unicode version.
    • deleted 11y ago
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    • germanier 11y ago
      Nowadays most modern browsers will revert to the punycode ("xn--") if there is any chance of confusion, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
  • treerock 11y ago
    In Chrome, probably [1]. Other browsers don't seem to be as strict. [1]https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/idn-in-google-chrome https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/idn-in-...
  • mikewilliams 11y ago
    Hyperlink i.e http://.com http://.com How many people will double check the url bar and notice the url is actually http://www.xn--m3haa.com/ http://www.xn--m3haa.com/? Not all of them. :edit+seems like the three umbrella unicode symbols are not supported on hn, are they supported in e-mails?
• Tepix 11y ago
  A lot of unicode characters are blocked for domain names for this exact reason.