Why aḗr.com is the correct form
Ἀήρ
The name in its original Greek form. Ἀήρ carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
AER
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Aḗr
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
aḗr.com → xn--ar-lts.com
The non-ASCII characters in Aḗr are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Aḗr.
How aer becomes Aḗr
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | a | → | A | Same | A uppercase |
| 02 | e | → | ḗ | Dual | Stress + length |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | r same |
Why Aḗr is classified as Tier-1
The Greek form Ἀήρ is classified as single-tier Tier-1 in the PUNYCODEX collection. The Unicode restoration represents the scholarly convention for this name.
See how Aḗr behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
aer
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Aḗr