---
id: 1541
title: "The Quest for the Shortest Domain"
source_domain: josephthacker.com
source_url: "https://josephthacker.com/hacking/2025/08/19/quest-for-the-shortest-domain.html"
published_at: "2025-08-19 00:00"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "automation", "xss", "ssrf", "domain-names", "payload", "unicode"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1541"
lang: en
---

# The Quest for the Shortest Domain

## Summary

Joseph Thacker recounts spending six hours reversing registrar APIs to find short domains for XSS/SSRF payloads, comparing ASCII vs Unicode length and landing on finds like rad.pw and t4.rs.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** josephthacker.com
- **Published:** 2025-08-19 00:00
- **Original:** https://josephthacker.com/hacking/2025/08/19/quest-for-the-shortest-domain.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1541