stkhapugin@ could you PTAL. This is iPhoneX and M65+ only, starting as a blocker just in case, please remove if not. 

I think this is WAI. This is because the URL is too long to display, so we clip it on both sides to show the host (techmeme.com) as much as possible with priority for ".com". In this particular example, the clipped part is really short, but the masking that we use to obscure it already kicks in, which results in an invisible "h" and semi-transparent first "t" - clipping looks better with slightly longer and slightly shorter URLs. 

This is the same behaviour as we had pre-iOS 11b4. 

To check the security status, there's a security icon (green lock) on the left. 

Also, this is not iPhone X-only. 

+elawrence@chromium.org, carlosil@chromium.org, felt@chromium.org, 

Can you confirm that this is WAI from securities pov?  

As an aside, I'm casting a wide net here, who is the right owner for omnibox security going forward (in the past I'd start with lgarron)

Agree with #2.  Issue 765487  concerns the opposite scenario, where we incorrectly elide out the ".com" portion of the URL. 

Feel free to assign omnibox security bugs my way, but the Enamel team triages this node pretty regularly.