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I've yet to see a legit unicode domain, and my country doesn't speak English as a first language.

To tell you the truth IDN domains feel like a failure, a gimmick. Their biggest market probably was meant to be countries that don't use the Latin alphabet, and they've failed spectacularly.

If you use Firefox, for your own security, set network.IDN_show_punycode to true.



There are a few in Roman-lettered Europe, but they're not exactly common. Many are redirects to an ASCII domain.

They seem to be used in Russia a little more, especially with the .рф TLD[1], although many are still just redirects.

I have no idea what the text means, but these sites look reasonable: https://www.xn--80aicstx0byb.xn--p1ai/ http://xn--j1abth1c.xn--p1ai/ https://xn--d1ai6ai.xn--p1ai/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.%D1%80%D1%84

(HN seems to have translated these to Punycode, presumably a quick security measure without respect for non-ASCII languages.)


it used to be possible to block this with a patched dnsmasq that allows setting a regex, but the fork is not maintained and merging the patches to upstream is also not much fun.

so I hacked something together that uses the linux kernel NFQUEUE: https://github.com/DyslexicAtheist/nfq

this way I have guarantee that these domains will never be resolved (which is what I want :))




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