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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Also if I’m typing it, I’m referring to the domain name, which I don’t think allows special characters. (Just thinking of registered DNS names allowing all ISO character sets, that would be a scammers paradise.)

[–] yuri@pawb.social 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

ツ.gay

e: it’s real i promise

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

AfaIk, domain names may include special characters since a while.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

They do now! Blåhaj.world (might not work in old browsers)

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 23 hours ago

Generally it's called punycode and is encoded as xn--SOMETHING. Browsers mostly mitigate those scammer paradise tricks by rendering the punycode domain as intended only if it contains characters from a single script. Like if it contains an å, then only other characters from languages that also have å are allowed.