"X" sounds like the kind of name that the James Bond evil SPECTRE organization would rebrand to. Only they wouldn't be idiotic enough to do it.
@lauren I'm pretty sure SPECTRE would rebrand to some stupid unicode glyph nobody can type like ꙮ just to stop MI6's crack researchers from finding them via Google.
@sophieschmieg @cstross @lauren yeah sadly I think that means you can't register a punycode domain for it ...
@sophieschmieg @nickzoic @cstross @lauren
You can't as in there is no punycode for it because it's mapped to x.com, or as in the registry will refuse to register the punycode name that it would have if it wasn't mapped to x.com?
@sophieschmieg @robryk @nickzoic @cstross Really I don't think any extraordinary efforts are needed to push Twitter/X toward oblivion. Musk is doing a fine job of that himself, and all that's required now is probably patience.
@sophieschmieg @cstross @lauren *shakes fist* I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling standards bodies and their "good reasons" :-)
@robryk @nickzoic @cstross @lauren I mean, there is a puny code, in the sense that you can encode arbitrary Unicode codepoints in punycode, but you can't register the domain, as it is an invalid domain name according to ICANN rules.
Those rules unfortunately exist for a good reason, since the mapped characters all look very similar, so they can be used for phishing attacks