I thought that they only show unicode chars if they are used in one of the installed languages of the browser and if not they show the punycode instead 🤔
I don’t know if it makes you feel better but Tom Scott had a similar experience: https://youtu.be/X6NJkWbM1xk
Something like next.js?
They buy keys with stolen credit card credentials. Owner of the card blocks the payment, devs have no money and in addition have to pay for the chargeback.
15 year old laptop may not have sata, please make sure before you buy a ssd