{"id":1452,"date":"2005-02-08T21:07:17","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T01:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2005-02-08T21:07:17","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T01:07:17","slug":"idn-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"IDN test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is this a spοοf? well, yes: the two “o”s are actually Greek Omicrons.<\/p>\n\n

Here is http:\/\/www.раураl.com — except that it’s written using cyrillic look-alikes for “paypa”.<\/p>\n\n

It turns out that somebody has already thought of<\/a> that one. But unicode domain names are clearly going to lead to great excitement in this fallen world.<\/p>\n\n

Actually mangling a unicode domain name into a form that browsers can parse as an url is not terribly easy. You have to convert it into something called “punycode” first, and register the punycode representation. But it can’t be insurmountably difficult for motivated crooks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is this a spοοf? well, yes: the two “o”s are actually Greek Omicrons. Here is http:\/\/www.раураl.com — except that it’s written using cyrillic look-alikes for “paypa”. It turns out that somebody has already thought of that one. But unicode domain … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}