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Re: Internationalized domain names in the root

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu May 6 16:58:56 2010

From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <C8087424.3009B%zaid@zaidali.com>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 22:57:43 +0200
To: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
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On 2010-05-06, at 22:27, Zaid Ali wrote:

> Now if I understood arabic only and was travelling or happen to use =
Firefox
> which showed punycode how would I trust it?

I agree, that seems like nonsense.

The answer for non-Arabic-speakers who are concerned about whether an =
Arabic URL is a phishing site is presumably just not to follow any =
Arabic URLs. They're surely intended for people that don't have that =
problem.


Joe



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