discuss Is this a scam?

NameBuyer.com said:

Yeah, those are just IDN domains. They use symbols that represent the real letters.

I don't want to click on your examples since I don't know what's on the other side, but if you take the example below that I own, it shows one value to users, but to get to the domain you have to type in the Punycode.

punycode: xn--hek.net
Resulting site: ロ.net

There isn't a lot of use for these since the end users can't actually type in the website easily, but I have a few.

Most sites identify the IDN domains that are in auction or listed as a BIN.

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pb said:

I'm not going to try, but I think it's impossible to register аpple.com, because IIRC they blocked mixed-script domains after the pаypal.com scam (or was it paypаl.com?).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack

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• I have friends who have been scammed with domain names like this
  

• I usually complete it automatically in the browser
  

Brian L. said:

I usual manually type in important domains and then bookmark them.

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• I usually complete it automatically in the browser