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by cmroanirgo 1404 days ago
DNS support is no where near Unicode. At best we get local language support for non-ASCII domains, but everyone else will see it as punycode. Of course, phishing is one good reason why it's this.

> Internationalized domain names are stored in the Domain Name System (DNS) as ASCII strings using Punycode transcription.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

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DNS dates from 1983 and we're stuck with its limitations, but the GP is building a new system.