I think that's what domains get translated into when you're using a foreign language for the URL. It's to prevent IDN homograph attacks https://en.wikipedia.org

I think that's what domains get translated into when you're using a foreign language for the URL. It's to prevent IDN homograph attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack which basically tries to impersonate a legitimate URL with a fake unicode character. I've always thought that there must be a better solution than to force all of the non-English speaking world to conform to our views though. Chrome somehow solves it. If you visit the actual URL, it's allestörungen.de, which is quite nice. I wonder what the protocol is of when to decode the URL.