Comment on Thoughts on Cloudflare
9point6@lemmy.world 5 days agoIt’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.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
The term “Human” does not include people who primarily read non latin-based languages silly
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Ideally they should show both side by side.
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
NGL that is a beautiful website