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This one is odd: xn--mgbaakc7dvf (Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (trading as Etisalat)) Anyone have any idea why that would be a TLD? I'm assuming

• cookrn 2y ago
  Correct, it’s an encoding for characters from different alphabets https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_nam...
  • 1oooqooq 2y ago
    wallmart got 一号店 wonder how much 八号店 is going for
• shrimpanse 2y ago
  That renders as arabic .اتصالات wich basically means ".telecommunication".
• pests 2y ago
  It's Punycode. Basically non-ascii characters are removed and the numbers/letters at the end encode what they were and what position they were in. This was part of the panic of similar looking Unicode characters being used in phishing attacks.