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minus-squareJohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-29 hours agoIt’s マリウス.com but the “internationalized domain name” system pynycodes it to gibberish to prevent spoofing urls using lookalike characters. Like https://xn--mzon-43db.com/ is аmаzon.com. Those are cyrillic lowercase ‘а’, not ‘a’. [EDIT] The blog itself actually has a great article explaining it.
It’s
マリウス.com
but the “internationalized domain name” system pynycodes it to gibberish to prevent spoofing urls using lookalike characters.Like
https://xn--mzon-43db.com/
isаmаzon.com
. Those are cyrillic lowercase ‘а’, not ‘a’.[EDIT] The blog itself actually has a great article explaining it.