TIL about domain hacks. Ever heard of those? Check out my blog post if you want to learn more!
TIL about domain hacks. Ever heard of those? Check out my blog post if you want to learn more!
International Domain Names pose interesting options for hacks and also spoofing: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/12/14/idn-is-crazy/
#idn #idns #internationaldomainnames #domainnames #uri #uris #url #urls #danielstenberg #unicode #punycode #internationalisation #internationalization #i18n #hacks #hacking #spoofs #spoof #spoofing #hack #domainhack #domainhacks
IDN, International Domain Names, is the concept that lets us register and use international characters in domain names, and by international we of course mean characters outside of the ASCII range. Recently I have fought some battles against IDN and IDN decoding so I felt this urge to write a lot of words about it … Continue reading IDN is crazy →
#DidYouKnow / #Trivia The oldest and shortest domain name I came across is:
https://ii.com ("Infinite Ink")
The domain name was registered on 1993-10-08 08:17:45Z. And the website has been online since then.
It is currently running on #Hugo, and is owned by Nancy McGough.
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Do you know of other cool domain names?
It could have been:
* Registered back in the 90s and still actively used; or frozen/archived
* Short[est] domain name
* Oldest #DomainHack
It should not be owned by a domain squatter; and not redirecting to another domain.
Do share!
#domainhack: shojo.town is available
so you can now have any suite of Mastodon instances related to anime tans
Today's #domainhack:
'nologin.today' is available
starting at 2.95 $
then, later: 'sorry.nologin.today'