Comments on: Upside down domains—registering an international domain name

By: Russell Bishop

Russell Bishop — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:31:36 +0000

It’s an interesting new idea for domains, although as I’m sure alot of people have stated before, it may pose security risks.

For example, if you took the domain name of a popular website where people enter sensitive details (banks, email, social networks..) and replaced some of the domain’s characters with upside down characters that are very similar to the original, we could need a whole new layer of identifying fake websites (especially for the non-internet savvy).

A friend of my (@Tom_Beynon) purchased http://uƃısǝpqǝʍ.com (webdesign.com) a few weeks back, not as a “THIS IS A GOLD MINE”, but more, as you’ve put it, it’s just cool!

Keep a close eye on these domains!

By: waterman

waterman — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:41:19 +0000

Great information,I have bookmarked this site to my list for future and will keep a eye on your other posts.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:26:00 +0000

Who’s gonna register: ??????sn?

By: Padizine

Padizine — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:11:03 +0000

As you said, this is kinda cool, but that’s about it. I mean I don’t see any useful application for this, unless it’s just for fun. However, using this trick to shorten your URL might prove useful in some situations.

Thank you for sharing this.

By: Timo Reitnauer

Timo Reitnauer — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:29:05 +0000

You might also be interested in our upside down domain name generator at iWantMyName. It's integrated with a domain search so you can skip the additional step.

By: Jennifer L

Jennifer L — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:31:47 +0000

Great idea! I just have to come up with one for me… Hmm.

By: Douwe

Douwe — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:14:08 +0000

Who will be the first to register ?pple.com (xn--pple-43d.com) using this method?

By: Craig Parker

Craig Parker — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:48:45 +0000

Nice one mate, thanks for sharing, I am definitely gonna look at one for using URL shortening