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> I think the website should be translated, together with the domain name. Actually, "pwned" already sounds like something only those who "live and breath tech"
by stordoff 9y ago
> I think the website should be translated, together with the domain name. Actually, "pwned" already sounds like something only those who "live and breath tech", to quote the article, would be expected to be familiar with.
Not sure about that. I feel like translating the domain would made the phishing/trustworthiness issues more difficult - as is, there is a single canonical domain name which, at this point, has been well-publicised. Verifying that any particular translated domain for the myriad possibilities is real, especially when they may be less widely publicised/used due to having smaller userbases/fragmenting the userbase, seems tricky.
I also not sure how much of an issue "pwned" is - a lot of successful services use words that _no one_ would be familiar with or that are entirely made up.
- lione 9y agoYeah, Pwned is fine. I mean what's a Google? That isn't a word!
- delecti 9y agoWell strictly speaking it's a typo of a word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol
- jessaustin 9y agoIt's entertaining that Google are and always have been typo-squatters, but "pwn" has been a typo since the very first time it was typed. Now since there is no red squiggly line I am wondering whether I added "pwn" as a custom addition to my local dictionary...
- mistercow 9y agoSeems to be standard in the macOS spellcheck dictionary. Some traditional dictionaries now contain it as well.
- WorldMaker 9y agoI was amused by the aside late in the article that Troy has been collecting weird misspellings of pwned, mostly thanks to media articles, and buying those domains for redirects to be helpful. Personally, I'm now in love with https://haveibeenprawned.com; https://haveibeenprawned.com; it's a like a little tiny modern internet reinterpretation of Kafka's Metamorphosis.