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by ergot 3498 days ago
So if I mix ASCII with obscure UTF8 characters like the domain in OP's post I can register it then?

Something like www.paypal.com --> www.n--pal-n76secrc.com

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No. When you apply NFKC normalization to that string, you get just 'paypal', so Paypal have already registered the result. You can try that here: http://mct.verisign-grs.com/ - notice how the output is not the same as some online converters based on punycode.js, because that doesn't have nameprep support https://github.com/bestiejs/punycode.js/issues/40