• patrickA
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      12 hours ago

      Are you talking about the “xn—“ domain name? Because FYI that’s just a punycode domain. It’s pretty commonly used for non-ascii domains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

      The article itself is only available over Tor or I2P anyways though.

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          10 hours ago

          You still think it’s sketchy?

          I’ve explained that it’s perfectly normal, that it’s just someone who wants to use Unicode in their domain name (in this case because they probably speak a non-ascii based language), and most good web clients should be showing that link as the Unicode characters. Firefox for example shows that as the proper Unicode directly.

          It literally is just a way for non-english speakers to have a domain name in their native language.

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            9 hours ago

            People are usually aware enough to know that seeing Unicode characters in a URL looks wrong even if they don’t know why. Pair that with Punycode’s reputation for being abused by malicious actors and some clients not even showing the Unicode, and you have a link few are going to want to click on.

            It’s not that I don’t understand what you’re saying I was just commenting on the fact that nobody is going to want to click that link.