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It's the same way with http://💩.la/ it gets turned into the following using IDNA: xn--ls8h.la.

That is a valid domain name and should be treated as such.



I guess you could argue the definition of "valid". According to the RFC it's

DISALLOWED: Those that should clearly not be included in IDNs. Code points with this property value are not permitted in IDNs.




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