Konami Code Domain Name
By @edent
· dns punycode url · 5 comments · 150 words · read ~333 times.
More on my experiments with silly Punycode domain names.
http://↑↑↓↓←→←→ba.tk/
Yup, copy and paste that into your browser and it will resolve.
For now, it just redirects to a Wikipedia article. If you can think of a better use for it, please let me know. I wonder how mail clients do at sending emails to it?
Interestingly, Chrome sometimes throws up a warning that this is a "Fake Site" saying "Attackers sometimes mimic sites by making small, hard-to-see changes to the URL." I suspect that's because of the mixture of English characters and symbols.
I was inspired by the (slightly weird) http://↓.tk website.
'/%3E%3ClinearGradient id='a' y2='1'%3E%3Cstop offset='0' stop-color='%236364ff'/%3E%3Cstop offset='1' stop-color='%23563acc'/%3E%3C/linearGradient%3E%3Cpath d='M317 381q-124 28-123-39 69 15 149 2 67-13 72-80 3-101-3-116-19-49-72-58-98-10-162 0-56 10-75 58-12 31-3 147 3 32 9 53 13 46 70 69 83 23 138-9'/%3E%3Cpath d='M360 293h-36v-93q-1-26-29-23-20 3-20 34v47h-36v-47q0-31-20-34-30-3-30 28v88h-36v-91q1-51 44-60 33-5 51 21l9 15 9-15q16-26 51-21 43 9 43 60' fill='url(%23a)'/%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=small}
@EdentMy browser gives me a "fake site" warning; looks like Robocop is at work.https://the.webm.ink/dealing-with-googles-malware-robocop
Dealing With Google's Malware Robocop
@Edent the default (?) Mastodon android client makes that clickable, through to the fake site warning...
Clicking on link in post notification e-mail took me straight to Wikipedia...
@Edent redirect to https://retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/?
@Edent Thanks for the link to the wikipedia, found out my kids Fisher price game pad does special “Mario eats a mushroom” sound when that code is keyed 🙂
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