Cyrillic URLs on BlogSpot.com
The reason for writing this article was this topic . After reading it, I had a desire to experiment - I registered an account on Habré with the Cyrillic alphabet in the name, however, my curiosity did not fade, moreover, I had an idea to choose some popular blog resource and check it for the possibility of registering Cyrillic names. The first thing that came to mind was BlogSpot.com , on which I once tried to start my blog, however, my hands did not reach it.
BlogSpot greeted me with a joyful call to create my blog, succumbing to Google’s belief that the blog is unrealistically cool, I had to enter an address in the second step. This is where the fun begins, to get the Cyrillic URL of the blog, simply by typing Russian letters, it will not succeed, you just get a warning that they are forbidden. So how to be?
As far as I was able to figure out, in fact, the Cyrillic addresses are not at all any non-Cyrillic, as absurd as it sounds. Just a browser before sending a request transforms the letters of national alphabets into the so-called Punycode encoding. Thus, it is necessary to register a blog, with a special address in the form of Punycode, so that if requested, the browser would transform the Russian name into this address. When everything became more or less clear, it remains to find some tool for translating Russian words into this encoding. Actually, Google solved this problem in half a minute.
In general, BlogSpot quite calmly ate the seemingly abrasive address of the blog xn - 90akrh, so please welcome it at http: //bomzh.blogspot.com .
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However, it is only at first glance that such an address looks cool, in fact, with Cyrillic there are more problems than advantages, in fact, there is only one virtue - such an address can be greatly surprised, as a result of which it is well remembered. Well, the problems - in bulk. The most important of them - the majority of users will not see your blog, despite the fact that all new browsers support Russian domains, the majority of users are still sitting on the IE6 clunker, which does not support such addresses. In addition, search engines have not yet learned to index sites with Cyrillic (and God forbid, they will never learn). Moreover, enterprising people can register a mixed address consisting of Latin and Russian letters at the same time, of course, such an address cannot be easily distinguished from a false one, which opens up new spaces for phishing.
So, no matter how cool and unusual the Cyrillic address of your blog looks, nevertheless, it is preferable to use the Latin alphabet.
BlogSpot greeted me with a joyful call to create my blog, succumbing to Google’s belief that the blog is unrealistically cool, I had to enter an address in the second step. This is where the fun begins, to get the Cyrillic URL of the blog, simply by typing Russian letters, it will not succeed, you just get a warning that they are forbidden. So how to be?
As far as I was able to figure out, in fact, the Cyrillic addresses are not at all any non-Cyrillic, as absurd as it sounds. Just a browser before sending a request transforms the letters of national alphabets into the so-called Punycode encoding. Thus, it is necessary to register a blog, with a special address in the form of Punycode, so that if requested, the browser would transform the Russian name into this address. When everything became more or less clear, it remains to find some tool for translating Russian words into this encoding. Actually, Google solved this problem in half a minute.
In general, BlogSpot quite calmly ate the seemingly abrasive address of the blog xn - 90akrh, so please welcome it at http: //bomzh.blogspot.com .
')
However, it is only at first glance that such an address looks cool, in fact, with Cyrillic there are more problems than advantages, in fact, there is only one virtue - such an address can be greatly surprised, as a result of which it is well remembered. Well, the problems - in bulk. The most important of them - the majority of users will not see your blog, despite the fact that all new browsers support Russian domains, the majority of users are still sitting on the IE6 clunker, which does not support such addresses. In addition, search engines have not yet learned to index sites with Cyrillic (and God forbid, they will never learn). Moreover, enterprising people can register a mixed address consisting of Latin and Russian letters at the same time, of course, such an address cannot be easily distinguished from a false one, which opens up new spaces for phishing.
So, no matter how cool and unusual the Cyrillic address of your blog looks, nevertheless, it is preferable to use the Latin alphabet.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/13675/
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