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interesting domain name. HN shows it as xn--thibaud-dya.fr but browers show it as thiebaud.fr (accented e) . Reminds me of something I read here on HN about a m
by ktta 10y ago
interesting domain name. HN shows it as xn--thibaud-dya.fr but browers show it as thiebaud.fr (accented e) . Reminds me of something I read here on HN about a month ago about the history of web/URLs
- RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 10y agoIt's Punycode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode In Firefox, you can force it to always show the encoded form, as HN had, with network.IDN_show_punycode. Not as pretty, but may protect you against homograph attacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack