It’s a punycode domain, it’s how non-Roman characters in domain names are represented
This is the Japanese katakana spelling out “Mariusu” so I’m guessing the author is called Marius
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salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 6 months ago
That’s a reputable looking domain if I’ve ever seen one
It’s a punycode domain, it’s how non-Roman characters in domain names are represented
This is the Japanese katakana spelling out “Mariusu” so I’m guessing the author is called Marius
xn–gckvb8fzb.com
マリウス.com
Very interesting, today I learnt something cool and new ty
NGL that is a beautiful website
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.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
The FQDN is only a translation lookup between a human readable name and an IP address, it doesn’t say anything about the trustworthiness of the content or its operators, it’s just a name. DNS exists for convenience not establishing trust.