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Get the BBS Scene Vibes back with Neon Modem Overdrive (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That "xn--" link seems mighty suspicious.......

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's just some Unicode stuff; the domain name is non Latin characters so that's how you represent it where unicode isn't properly supported. Doesn't mean mean anything malicious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Is it common for Japanese URLs to use non-Latin text like that? I rarely end up on Japanese websites, but I feel like I've always seen romaji domains when I've ended up there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I think its just the ASCII chars for his website domain.
Example: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/get-the-bbs-scene-vibes-back-with-neonmodem-overdrive/images/neonmodem.gif

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

It's called punycode. It's just a way of encoding non ASCII characters in a URL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

He explains it in the faq