Re:I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built...
by rendall on Thursday March 11, 2021 @09:09AM
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I went to [lightbulb-emoji].kz and it transformed to http://xn--ds8h.kz
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Re:I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built...
by Biganon on Thursday March 11, 2021 @09:46AM
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That's punycode. Your browser is configured to display everything as ascii, using the punycode "transcoding". It's a good practice, see the binance hack that used binance.com with a tiny diacritic on one of the letters, that lead to a huge phishing attack.