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What's with the domain name? it says thiébaud.fr but when copied/pasted it becomes xn--thibaud-dya.fr Edit: Thanks for the links! :)
by noobie 11y ago
What's with the domain name? it says thiébaud.fr but when copied/pasted it becomes xn--thibaud-dya.fr
Edit: Thanks for the links! :)
- talideon 11y agoIt's an IDN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
- learnstats2 11y agoThat's how internationalized domains work. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator#Internationalized_URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator#Inter...
- mrwizrd 11y agoThe domain name is being converted to PunyCode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode). This is a defence developed to prevent spoofing of domain names using indistinguishable characters from other character sets than ASCII. Before this was fixed by browser developers, it was possible to execute an IDN homograph attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack) and spoof sites using characters that looked like e.g., google.com/paypal.com when they rendered in your browser address bar, but were actually a completely different domain as far as automated systems were concerned. Edit: typo.
- Flimm 11y agoInterestingly, Hacker News doesn't support this standard, and the link on the front page shows the unfriendly version.
- ozh 11y agoIt's because IDN domains became a standard after tables stopped to be used in page layouts </sarcasm>