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.)
domain names can be basically whatever the fuck you want and it kills me how no one in sweden seems to understand this, like come on we’re supposed to be good at computers up here, we can do better than just redirecting göteborg.se to goteborg.se…
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.
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.)
domain names can be basically whatever the fuck you want and it kills me how no one in sweden seems to understand this, like come on we’re supposed to be good at computers up here, we can do better than just redirecting göteborg.se to goteborg.se…
They do now! Blåhaj.world (might not work in old browsers)
AfaIk, domain names may include special characters since a while.
ツ.gay
e: it’s real i promise
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.