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For the situation in the article it would not have changed anything. As the fake domains were just adding an 's' to the end of the domain. Also I'm not sure wh

by graton 7y ago

For the situation in the article it would not have changed anything. As the fake domains were just adding an 's' to the end of the domain. Also I'm not sure what effect that will have for Chinese users. It might make many of their URLs look strange to them. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7ul9p3/why_is_networkidn_show_punycode_default_to_false/?st=k3vyesfg&sh=26d84cc0 https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7ul9p3/why_is_netw...

yorwba 7y ago
I'm not aware of any Chinese websites that don't just use Pinyin for their domain name. Some random person is squatting on http://百度.中国/ http://xn--wxtr44c.xn--fiqs8s/ (百度.中国), but Baidu doesn't seem to care. They use http://www.baidu.com/ http://www.baidu.com/ as their primary address.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago
  > I'm not aware of any Chinese websites that don't just use Pinyin for their domain name. There are tons. One prominent email provider is a three-digit number. There's a job board at 51job.com. (What's 51job? Read in Mandarin, that would be "wǔ yāo job" [five one "job" (the English word)]. This is felt to sound similar to "wǒ yào job" 我要job [I want a job].)
  - tluyben2 7y ago
    Why is 1 = yāo? It is yi isn’t it?
    - thaumasiotes 7y ago
      一 yi (tone varies based on phonological context) is the ordinary word for 1. 幺 yāo is a common word for 1 when vocalizing a stream of digits. (Such as a phone number / credit card number / account number / etc.) I am told that this originated as a way to easily distinguish 1 from 7 (七 qī) when communicating over a low-quality connection. In the presence of static, yi and qi could sound similar. CC-CEDICT has a good gloss ( https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=%E5%B9%BA https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=... ): > one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military)
      - tluyben2 7y ago
        Thanks!
  - yorwba 7y ago
    I should've written "... that don't just use ASCII characters instead of Hanzi." Of course domains using numbers or English words aren't Pinyin, but the point is that they don't require Punycode to represent.

by graton 7y ago

yorwba 7y ago

I'm not aware of any Chinese websites that don't just use Pinyin for their domain name. Some random person is squatting on http://百度.中国/ http://xn--wxtr44c.xn--fiqs8s/ (百度.中国), but Baidu doesn't seem to care. They use http://www.baidu.com/ http://www.baidu.com/ as their primary address.

thaumasiotes 7y ago
> I'm not aware of any Chinese websites that don't just use Pinyin for their domain name. There are tons. One prominent email provider is a three-digit number. There's a job board at 51job.com. (What's 51job? Read in Mandarin, that would be "wǔ yāo job" [five one "job" (the English word)]. This is felt to sound similar to "wǒ yào job" 我要job [I want a job].)
- tluyben2 7y ago
  Why is 1 = yāo? It is yi isn’t it?
  - thaumasiotes 7y ago
    一 yi (tone varies based on phonological context) is the ordinary word for 1. 幺 yāo is a common word for 1 when vocalizing a stream of digits. (Such as a phone number / credit card number / account number / etc.) I am told that this originated as a way to easily distinguish 1 from 7 (七 qī) when communicating over a low-quality connection. In the presence of static, yi and qi could sound similar. CC-CEDICT has a good gloss ( https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=%E5%B9%BA https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=... ): > one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military)
    - tluyben2 7y ago
      Thanks!
- yorwba 7y ago
  I should've written "... that don't just use ASCII characters instead of Hanzi." Of course domains using numbers or English words aren't Pinyin, but the point is that they don't require Punycode to represent.