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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 11:57am on 19/01/2006 under , , ,
Well, all LJs are now referred to as username.livejournal.com, even free ones. This, of course, reminded me of the joys of punycode.
So, without further ado, let me introduce you to http://☣⚠.livejournal.com, http://☣.livejournal.com (since U+26a0 seems not to be in many fonts), and, perhaps a little more alarmingly, http://ωωω.livejournal.com and http://ẉ ẉ ẉ.livejournal.com
Mood:: 'geeky' geeky
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posted by [identity profile] naath.livejournal.com at 12:48pm on 19/01/2006
Wah! I lack founts! Wos the joke?
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posted by [identity profile] ptc24.livejournal.com at 01:00pm on 19/01/2006
You've not been listening to that Frank King person, have you?
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posted by [identity profile] naath.livejournal.com at 01:04pm on 19/01/2006
What? Oh, yes. Except that in this case what I can't do is type.
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posted by [identity profile] senji.livejournal.com at 01:11pm on 19/01/2006
And possibly Jonathan Woss.
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posted by [identity profile] xlerb.livejournal.com at 12:13pm on 20/01/2006
Domain names like that got somewhat publically Considered Harmful OMG a little while back, because of all the bank-scams and people's security depending on the visual appearance of the hostname authenticated with an SSL certificate and so on. And IIRC Mozilla turned off support for it, or at least displaying them in the address bar in Unicode, by default, as a result. I note that the latest Opera still does it, though (but then Opera, if doing SSL, will show the common name and country on the cert in a little yellow box next to the little lock icon, which at least raises the bar a little).

Hm. Maybe they've caught on to the trick since you posted, because it says xn__7gqs20p7pd is a “reserved username”.
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