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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.
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.
That “xn–” link seems mighty suspicious…
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.
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.
I think its just the ASCII chars for his website domain.
Example: https://マリウス.com/get-the-bbs-scene-vibes-back-with-neonmodem-overdrive/images/neonmodem.gif
It’s called punycode. It’s just a way of encoding non ASCII characters in a URL.
He explains it in the faq