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fìx.com - fix.com

Of course, fìx.com (the first one) is pretty much worthless and nobody in their right mind would pay $46,001 for such an ugly domain. But when it looks like the highly valuable fix.com (the second one), it’s understandable that potential buyers get excited and smell a bargain. But this time, it wasn’t meant to be and the winning bidder will probably refuse to pay when he realizes his mistake.

Meanwhile, at the time of writing, the auction for wìne.com (xn--wne-nma.com) is still in progress. It has attracted 9 bidders, with the top bid currently at €510. How many of them believe they are competing for wine.com?

Sedo, the company that manages these auctions, does indicate in the fine print that these domain are IDNs, which are, essentially, domains that allow the use of special characters such as á, ï, è etc. However, many domain newbies will not realize what they are getting themselves into.

Therefore, Sedo should either announce these junk domains as follows:

xn--fx-kja.com (fìx.com)
xn--wne-nma.com (wìne.com)

… or ban them entirely. Their domain auction service had started out as a pleasant alternative to eBay’s scrap heap but it has degenerated rapidly in recent weeks.

Incidentally, yet another imitator is up for auction on eBay. This time it’s fıx.com. No, not fix.com, but fıx.com, which is actually xn--fx-hpa.com. Buyer beware!

While legitimate IDN domains do serve a limited purpose, these bogus domains are worthless and even dangerous. Fortunately, due to spoofing concerns most browsers convert these domains to their ASCII representations; if you copy fìx.com into your address bar and hit enter (or click here), the URL will actually be displayed as http://xn--fx-kja.com. Using your browser as assistant in this way may be the only sure-fire way to make sure that a domain you’re interested in isn’t just a cheap pretender.

Thanks for the info very useful ^^

fìx.com = fix.com ?

To o00o: there is a difference if u look carefully: fìx.com - fix.com

the "i" is not with a dot on top. It's a " ì "

Woow, incredible :
http://xn--mcrosoft-21a.com/ = Mìcrosoft.com

Btw, where did you found that ???

uh.. i don't understand about that @.@

if you use ì instead of i the browser guides u to a weird domain

Woww,, thats a good fake! They hold their domain and sell the other who is almost the same for 500,00!

Double-D wrote:Woww,, thats a good fake! They hold their domain and sell the other who is almost the same for 500,00!

they can make fortunes outof that

and they will, i think

Anyone is trying to make money in their ways ... this is fix.com way to make