Unicode Snowman

14 years ago
http://☃.net/
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33 Responses:

  1. jwz says:
    14 years ago at 5:38 pm

    Doesn't it seem unfair that Unicrud contains ☃ and  but not ?
  2. elegantelbow says:
    14 years ago at 6:22 pm

    2603?
  3. dossy says:
    14 years ago at 6:22 pm

    Bloat. ISO-8859-1 or die!
  4. muerte says:
    14 years ago at 6:41 pm

    Where can you register a unicode domain? I thought they were avoiding that for security reasons. To many glyphs look like others if you're not careful.
    • gen_witt says:
      14 years ago at 9:00 pm

      The domain name is xn--n3h.net, see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3492 for details on how to encode unicode into your domain name. And yes this has been used for several fishing attacks.
    • fnivramd says:
      14 years ago at 12:10 pm

      The TLD registries are split into basically three categories

      1. Those that didn't care for IDNs, and thus don't permit you to register them in their domain (of course they can't stop you using IDNs in sub-domains or host names, but those aren't felt to be a serious security problem, since you could already have hsbc.mydomain.example without IDNs and anyone falling for that probably lost all their money in phishing scams years ago)

      2. Those that obeyed a directive to identify a set of characters suitable for their purpose and restrict IDNs to only those characters, while also determining and algorithm to prevent visual collisions, ie forbid different owners for domain names which would appear too similar when written. Various European ccTLDs are in this category, since they wanted to permit local characters in local business names, while avoiding security problems as much as possible.

      3. Those that said "rules? we don't need no stinking rules, just give us your money". Most notably .com and other TLDs controlled by Verisign. These are the only registries where you can have arbitrary combinations of Unicode symbols in domain names. They're obviously a total security nightmare, but Verisign sees that as another opportunity to sell more SSL certificates. Sort of like selling fire insurance and poorly made fireworks in the same shop.
  5. ashura93 says:
    14 years ago at 6:49 pm

    ☂
    ☁
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  6. loic says:
    14 years ago at 7:03 pm

    godamnit. Last week I was trying to register the upside-down versions of my domains but was being declined :(
  7. dreamyshade says:
    14 years ago at 8:44 pm

    There's a list of more Unicode domains!
  8. boldra says:
    14 years ago at 1:11 am

    The snowman crashes Firefox (3.03, winXP), IE shows some of the unicode symbols, and opera mobile none of them.
    • jayp39 says:
      14 years ago at 1:54 am

      I have FF 3.0.3 on xp and it works fine; might be an extension problem.
      • lightinchains says:
        14 years ago at 10:36 am

        On my firefox I have a little box containing the number 26 above the number 03. I suspect that somewhere I'm missing some unicode something on my machine.
    • scullin says:
      14 years ago at 11:40 am

      Safari on OSX gives me a nonplussed, fez wearing snowman, but Firefox 3.03 gives me a happy, top hat wearing snowman. After spending hours getting their ligatures down, the font designers seem to get a little punchy in the miscellaneous symbols.
    • taffer says:
      14 years ago at 7:00 am

      Apparently I'm using shitty fonts... here (Firefox 3.03, XP) it looks like hairy balls.
  9. mjg59 says:
    14 years ago at 6:59 am

    One of the irritating things about IDN is that it doesn't seem to have spread to many email clients yet. Last time I tried mail.app, it % encoded ☭.net for me. Then complained that sending had failed. And then % encoded the % encoding when I tried again. Hilarity ensued.

    Also fear of entering the US with ☭ on business cards.
  10. mjg59 says:
    14 years ago at 9:00 am

    Huh. Closer examination reveals that RFC4690 removes symbols from the list of permitted characters in domains. Verisign policy seems to be that existing domains can continue to be renewed but new ones can't be registered (something that seems to confuse most IDN registration sites), but there's no guarantee that browsers will continue to implement support for them.
  11. giantlaser says:
    14 years ago at 1:59 am

    Firefox 3.0.3, Ubuntu 8.04, amd64, loads http://xn--n3h.net/ without issue.

    Konqueror 3.5.10 attempts to load "http:?.net/", which fails.

    I prefer the second behaviour. At least I'm safe from Phishing.

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