Thoughts on its role and impact on the web’s landscape.
    • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65·
      7 months ago

      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

        • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          171·
          7 months 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.

                • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                  1·
                  7 months ago

                  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.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
      41·
      7 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.

  • Sips'@slrpnk.netEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    What an awesome website! Its literary a goldmine of good information on privacy tips!

  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    it’s a real bummer, yeah.

    but a free tier CF account has the potential to completely solve your AI scraper traffic problems with very little configuration.