I'm also interested in what's going on with the .vistaprint domain, how do you get one of those?

What's up with those xn--* TLDs

xn-- is a prefix for Punycode IDNA (RFC3492) which allows for non-alphanumeric characters in domain names. This enables the DNS infrastructure to be able to continue to use traditional domain name character restrictions while allowing compliant applications to display and allow input of domain names in a variety Unicode supported characters which get translated internally to an encoded alphanumeric domain name. (It also sometimes allows one to use look-alike characters in phishing schemes.)

Encoded Chinese. https://icannwiki.org/.中国

(And other Unicode names)

Thanks!

Side-related:

Hide TLDs in search results using:

> Google Hit Hider by Domain [GHHbD] by Jefferson Scher

http://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/

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Build your custom filters using...

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> The Top 10 Worst TLDs - a rolling live list by SpamHaus

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/

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> "Top Level Domains: Will block most non-traditional domains"

https://github.com/ShadowWhisperer/BlockLists/blob/master/Li...

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> hBlock's most_abused_tlds.txt: https://hblock.molinero.dev/