It’s a punycode domain, it’s how non-Roman characters in domain names are represented. Your browser will convert it to the actual Unicode characters in the address bar (and if you type them in yourself and hit enter, it’ll get translated into punycode for the actual request)
This is the Japanese katakana spelling out “Mariusu” so I’m guessing the author is called Marius
Let’s say that I go to google.com. The UI shows
https://google.com/ . No punycode because it is plain ascii. Everything is as expected.
Now let’s say I click on a link for googӏe.com. The ui shows https://xn--googe-hof.com/ (googӏe.com) I’d be like, holy shit that is a shady URL!
That’s how I imagine it helping, although I am not a UI expert. There could be a better way. But that googӏe.com scares me – I can’t visually tell that it is not a normal lowercase “l”.
P.S. for the URL in question, https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/ (マリウス.com) I imagine that if I went to it frequently, I might begin to recognize the punycode, sorta like how people recognize rickroll URLs.
It’s a punycode domain, it’s how non-Roman characters in domain names are represented. Your browser will convert it to the actual Unicode characters in the address bar (and if you type them in yourself and hit enter, it’ll get translated into punycode for the actual request)
This is the Japanese katakana spelling out “Mariusu” so I’m guessing the author is called Marius
xn–gckvb8fzb
マリウス.com
Very interesting, today I learnt something cool and new ty
I’ve heard it’s a security feature not ro render unicode in the url because otherwise people could use Unicode lookalike characters to spoof a domain.
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The term “Human” does not include people who primarily read non latin-based languages silly
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Shit, I forgot that Human now just means the native English-speaking world.
Ideally they should show both side by side.
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Let’s say that I go to google.com. The UI shows
https://google.com/. No punycode because it is plain ascii. Everything is as expected.Now let’s say I click on a link for googӏe.com. The ui shows
https://xn--googe-hof.com/ (googӏe.com)I’d be like, holy shit that is a shady URL!That’s how I imagine it helping, although I am not a UI expert. There could be a better way. But that googӏe.com scares me – I can’t visually tell that it is not a normal lowercase “l”.
P.S. for the URL in question,
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/ (マリウス.com)I imagine that if I went to it frequently, I might begin to recognize the punycode, sorta like how people recognize rickroll URLs.deleted by creator
Because it does not match google.com
NGL that is a beautiful website