Yes, it’s not very user friendly of Lemmy to display the Punycode encoded URL instead of the human readable form. While only a fraction of all people on the internet are able to read Japanese, there aren’t any at all who are able to read Punycode fluently.
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salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 5 days ago
That’s a reputable looking domain if I’ve ever seen one
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 days 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.
9point6@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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
Auth@lemmy.world 5 days ago
マリウス.com
Very interesting, today I learnt something cool and new ty
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
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.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
The problem with that line of reasoning is that it ruins what’s arguably the most important feature of DNS: providing human-readable names.
Using lookalike characters to deceive people has been a problem since long before anyone first got the idea to register paypa1.com but no-one ever seriously suggested abandoning human-readable names in order to avoid that problem.
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
NGL that is a beautiful website