NYCPHP Meetup

[David Krings]

On 9/29/2011 2:06 PM, John Campbell wrote:
>> Then again, who wants such a URL for a business anyway? Nobody can type that
>> letter on their keyboard and the punycode equivalent isn't really easy to
>> remember or meaningful. Yes, it makes the geek in me smile, but I hardly see
>> any practical purpose for this.
>
> It is designed for people coming from other languages.  Like groupon
> in china is gaopeng.com, but gaopeng is 高朋 when written as characters.
>    高朋.com is http://xn--bpvz66i.com/ in puny code.
>
> The problem with puny code is that it is a security nightmare, and no
> safe browsers are ever going to support it.
>
> Can you find the difference between http://paypal.com/ and
> http://paypaḷ.com/ ?
>
>
> Regards,
> John Campbell


Got it! Makes much more sense to me now. Thanks.

David