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sva_today at 11:03 AM3 repliesview on HN

What a silly filter, blocking all xn domains


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zvqcMMV6Zcrtoday at 11:24 AM

That whole feature is kind of paragraph 22. No legit/popular site uses it so users don't expect national characters in domain names, so no one actually hosts sites using "xn-" domains.

shusakutoday at 11:19 AM

Kind of an interesting history to this kind of url: https://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/dom/idn.html

duskdozertoday at 11:07 AM

Shrug. First time I'd seen this. If it displayed as the original text it would have been clearer.

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