[149685] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sat Feb 11 20:32:34 2012
Date: 12 Feb 2012 01:31:18 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <170508.1328984937@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>Nice. Basically, unless the TLD registrar has a public policy that basically says
>"We don't allow names with cyrillic C to collide with MICROSOFT", their hostnames
>all get displayed as xn--gobbledygook.
More or less. ICANN has been wrestling with the lookalike character
issue in domain names for about a decade. I think it's fair to say
that everyone agrees that all solutions are less than totally
satisfactory.
R's,
John
