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Show HN: Someone registered ÿoutube.com, could be a scam?

by harish_yadav on 11/16/21, 5:46 PM with 6 comments

So I found out someone registered ÿoutube.com which redirects to http://xn--outube-oza.com/

It is still a parked domain. My guess is that it could be a future honey pot.

  • by fairytale on 11/16/21, 5:55 PM

    It could also easily be used for phishing or IP logging purposes. Poor attempt though, almost everyone is now aware of unicode in domain names, and anyone techie enough would be able to spot it.

  • by blcknight on 11/18/21, 3:15 PM

    That’s not a redirect btw, it’s the same domain. The xn—- prefix indicates Unicode encoding