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The name as displayed on HN is the "real" domain name, it's a format called Punycode, used to allow Unicode domain names despite DNS only allowing a subset of A
by spijdar 5y ago
The name as displayed on HN is the "real" domain name, it's a format called Punycode, used to allow Unicode domain names despite DNS only allowing a subset of ASCII characters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
- tombrossman 5y agoFirefox users can set "network.IDN_show_punycode" to "true" in about:config (or your user.js preferences), which will help you identify phishing attacks using lookalike domain names. I believe Chrome users can do this as well, however it requires an extension.