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It’s
マリウス.combut the “internationalized domain name” system pynycodes it to gibberish to prevent spoofing urls using lookalike characters.Like
https://xn--mzon-43db.com/isаmаzon.com. Those are cyrillic lowercase ‘а’, not ‘a’.[EDIT] The blog itself actually has a great article explaining it.