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The Day WhatsApp Goes Dark
(xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
Well that certainly doesn’t look like a safe URL.
That’s how Unicode URLs get transformed into ASCII, this website has a Japanese URL
It's a Internationalized Domain Name encoding! First time I see one ^w^
I wonder how Lemmy would break horribly if you would host a server on such a domain 😅
Meanwhile, my XMPP connection to that domain just works :)
マリウス(.)com
Certianly safer than the US government sites by now.
That was certainly an interesting read. Will send it to others and recommend it.
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2026
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