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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name They're very common and cheap; it's a sin
by citricsquid 14y ago
http://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