HACKER Q&A
📣 novateg

How 𝕏.com Resolves to X.com?


How 𝕏.com Resolves to X.com?


  👤 spansoa Accepted Answer ✓
Homoglyph[0] attack / IDN homograph attack[1] mitigation in the browser

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack


👤 jadamson
It's silently converted to just "x.com", though I'm not sure what standard that's based on. It's not an IDN as the other comment suggests, as that character is disallowed under IDNA2008.

👤 lanna
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