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OP used Punycode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode) to encode the character, which in ASCII is "xn--8hh.ws"
by shawnz 14y ago
OP used Punycode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode) to encode the character, which in ASCII is "xn--8hh.ws"
- sp332 14y agoI don't think so, the link is written as http://⌖.ws http://⌖.ws And that wouldn't change the fact that ⌖.ws is a single-letter domain name.
- citricsquid 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name They're very common and cheap; it's a single character domain name, not a single letter or number.
- sp332 14y agoOh interesting: In the Domain Name System, these domains use an ASCII representation consisting of the prefix xn-- followed by the Punycode translation of the Unicode representation of the language-specific alphabet or script glyphs. For example, the Cyrillic name of Russia's IDN ccTLD is рф. In Punycode representation, this is plai, and its DNS name is xn--plai. I had assumed that domain registrars would be more careful of people buying really short domains that way, since the difference in price is huge. Well I'm off to buy xn--g5g.org (ⅹ.org) :)
- conradev 14y agoOne pretty cool use of this is the URL shortening service TinyArrows. http://tinyarro.ws http://tinyarro.ws
- shawnz 14y agoPunycode encoding/decoding of hyperlinks is a feature that is implemented by the browser. You'll notice that if you mouse-over it (in Chrome at least) the statusbar displays the "real" ASCII representation (for safety/security reasons). EDIT: Sorry, when I say "OP used [...]", I mean to say "OP was able to do it because of [...]". Punycode is handled by the browser, not done manually (except when registering the domain -- then you do it manually).
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