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What a silly filter, blocking all xn domains
by sva_ 7mo ago
What a silly filter, blocking all xn domains
- duskdozer 7mo agoShrug. First time I'd seen this. If it displayed as the original text it would have been clearer.
- httpsterio 7mo agoIn this case yes but it's meant as a punycode scam prevention where common Latin alphabet letters are swapped for similar looking alternatives.
- numpad0 7mo agoIt would make it hard to spot impostor domains like "news.усомbiнаtor[.]сом" if it was. There's enough inertia for FQDNs to be strictly ASCII and any UTF-8(outside ASCII) in domain names to be felt unnatural for an URL, so most systems default to the raw "Punycode" xn-- scheme for all IDNs.
- bombcar 7mo agoSafari at least shows the proper マリウス.com - I believe it has more complicated heuristics that boil down to "if it looks like a real script, show it, if it looks like some mangled English, show the xn-"
- shusaku 7mo agoKind of an interesting history to this kind of url: https://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/dom/idn.html https://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/dom/idn.html
- zvqcMMV6Zcr 7mo agoThat whole feature is kind of paragraph 22. No legit/popular site uses it so users don't expect national characters in domain names, so no one actually hosts sites using "xn-" domains.
- bombcar 7mo agoIt may be true in the US, but don't lots of domains in Asia use xn-?