Why pŷr.com is the correct form
Πῦρ
The name in its original Greek form. Πῦρ carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
PYR
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.
Pŷr
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
pŷr.com → xn--pr-hva.com
The non-ASCII characters in Pŷr are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Pŷr.
How pyr becomes Pŷr
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | p | → | P | Same | P uppercase |
| 02 | y | → | ŷ | Stress | Acute on y |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | r same |
Why Pŷr is classified as Tier-1
The Greek form Πῦρ is classified as single-tier Tier-1 in the PUNYCODEX collection. The Unicode restoration represents the scholarly convention for this name.
See how Pŷr behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
pyr
→
Pŷr