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jonas-w | 2 years ago

You can also access x.com when using the Unicode Character https://xn--971h.com (𝕏.com)

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mkl|2 years ago

Are you sure? When I type https://xn--971h.com in it doesn't work, but clicking the link in your comment does because HN has made the href x.com. The browser converts 𝕏.com to x.com before going there too. Moreover, X and 𝕏 are treated as equivalent characters in this context, so whois 𝕏.com looks up x.com, and 𝕏.com's punycode encoding is x.com: https://www.whatsmydns.net/idn-punycode-converter?q=%F0%9D%9...

whois xn--971h.com returns the same thing as an unregistered domain.

jonas-w|2 years ago

HN automatically converts these urls to punycode, maybe this is a bug and it automatically converts everything to punycode even though it doesn't make sense?

dom96|2 years ago

Looks like it's also not possible to register xn--971h.com (I tried both Namecheap and Cloudflare).

N19PEDL2|2 years ago

Also https://xn--u1a.com is for sale (where х is a Cyrillic letter, see [0]).

Would be funny to buy it and make a redirect to threads.net.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kha_(Cyrillic)

notatoad|2 years ago

i thought all non-latin punycode domains were forbidden for purchase on .com?

edit - i looked up the whois, just because it's parked at godaddy doesn't mean it's for sale

Name: XN--U1A.COM

Internationalized Domain Name: х.com

Registry Domain ID: 106236037_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN

Domain Status:

clientDeleteProhibited

clientRenewProhibited

clientTransferProhibited

clientUpdateProhibited

ricardo81|2 years ago

$ curl -i 'https://xn--971h.com'

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: xn--971h.com

yreg|2 years ago

    $ curl 𝕏.com
    <html>
    <head><title>400 Bad Request</title></head>
    <body>
    <center><h1>400 Bad Request</h1></center>
    <hr><center>cloudflare</center>
    </body>
    </html>

ranting-moth|2 years ago

I wonder what Elon paid for x.com?

qingcharles|2 years ago

I'm not sure. There was a short period when you could register one letter dotcoms before about 1994. He's owned it since forever that I know of. His first company was called X, which became PayPal.

I spent a long time in the mid-90s trying to persuade INTERNIC to let me register b.com.