Why thánatos.com is the correct form
Θάνατος
The name in its original Greek form. Θάνατος carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
THANATOS
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.
Thánatos
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
thánatos.com → xn--thnatos-iwa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Thánatos are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Thánatos.
How thanatos becomes Thánatos
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | t | → | T | Same | T uppercase |
| 02 | h | → | h | Same | h same |
| 03 | a | → | á | Stress | Acute on a |
| 04 | n | → | n | Same | n same |
| 05 | a | → | a | Same | a same |
| 06 | t | → | t | Same | t same |
| 07 | o | → | o | Same | o same |
| 08 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
Why Thánatos is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Θάνατος 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 Thánatos behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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