Why dāgan.com is the correct form
𐤃𐤂𐤍
The name in its original Phoenician form. 𐤃𐤂𐤍 → Dāgan. Phoenician d-g-n, the grain god · The macron over ā marks the long vowel inferred from cognates · Worshipped at Ugarit and in the Levant
DAGAN
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.
Dāgan
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
dāgan.com → xn--dgan-qsa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Dāgan are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Dāgan.
How dagan becomes Dāgan
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | d | → | D | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | ā | Length | Long vowel |
| 03 | g | → | g | Same | Same |
| 04 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 05 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
Why Dāgan is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Ancient name 𐤃𐤂𐤍 is represented by its most canonical scholarly spelling. For non-Greek names, Tier-1 status reflects the definitive attested restoration rather than Greek-style stress/length features. This is the authoritative Unicode form — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Dāgan behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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