The Authentic Orthography
Birthplace of Apollo · Clear, visible (from δῆλος)
Why dēlos.com is the correct form
Δῆλος
The name in its original Greek form. A name that carries the full phonetic weight of its source tradition.
DELOS
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.
Dēlos
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
dēlos.com → xn--dlos-bva.com
The non-ASCII characters in Dēlos are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Dēlos.
How delos becomes Dēlos
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | d | → | D | Same | Delta |
| 02 | e | → | ē | Length | Eta: long epsilon |
| 03 | l | → | l | Same | Lambda |
| 04 | o | → | o | Same | Short omicron |
| 05 | s | → | s | Same | Sigma |
Why Dēlos is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Greek original Δῆλος contains both stress AND at least one long vowel. However, there is only one historically valid Unicode restoration. The ASCII fallback is modern English, not ancient canonical. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Dēlos behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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