| ▲ | duskdozer 4 hours ago | |
Shrug. First time I'd seen this. If it displayed as the original text it would have been clearer. | ||
| ▲ | numpad0 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
It would make it hard to spot impostor domains like "news.усомbiнаtor[.]сом" if it was. There's enough inertia for FQDNs to be strictly ASCII and any UTF-8(outside ASCII) in domain names to be felt unnatural for an URL, so most systems default to the raw "Punycode" xn-- scheme for all IDNs. | ||
| ▲ | httpsterio 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
In this case yes but it's meant as a punycode scam prevention where common Latin alphabet letters are swapped for similar looking alternatives. | ||