Short explanation:
Why does russian characters in domain name in URL перезагрузкаопмо.рф
get mapped to some randomness like this: http://xn--80aaigamcyttbbjfe2c.xn--p1ai
. Please note, I am not speaking about the issue
with decoing in URL like this one: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0
Long explanation:
I was looking into the list of sites that has problems with the recent heartbleed exploit, and the site with a strange domain name surprised me: http://xn--80aaigamcyttbbjfe2c.xn--p1ai/
. In any other case I would assume that this is porn/viagra/exploit/dyingNigerianPriceSendingMoney kind of site (based on it's cryptic name), but global ranking of 46000 is impossible for this kind of things.
Looking into the site, it looks like it is in russian, and based google translation - it is about politics. But who will go to this site with such url? When I investigated it a little bit further, I found that it actually has normal url like this (перезагрузкаопмо.рф/
). But when I enter this into my address bar it changes it to the previous url.
So what is the problem here? Why does перезагрузкаопмо.рф/
maps to http://xn--80aaigamcyttbbjfe2c.xn--p1ai/
.
перезагрузкаопмо.рф
in address bar and it still looks the same? In my case it ishttp://xn--80aaigamcyttbbjfe2c.xn--p1ai