The Authentic Orthography
Retribution · Distribution, righteous anger
Why némésis.com is the correct form
Νέμεσις
The name in its original Greek form. Νέμεσις carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
NEMESIS
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.
Némésis
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
némésis.com → xn--nmsis-bsab.com
The non-ASCII characters in Némésis are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Némésis.
How nemesis becomes Némésis
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | n | → | N | Same | N uppercase |
| 02 | e | → | é | Stress | Acute on e |
| 03 | m | → | m | Same | m same |
| 04 | e | → | é | Stress | Acute on e |
| 05 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
| 06 | i | → | i | Same | i same |
| 07 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
Why Némésis is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Νέμεσις contains only stress (acute accent). This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 name. The Unicode restoration preserves what can be preserved — honoring the single feature that distinguishes it from plain ASCII.
See how Némésis behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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