[82746] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Jul 28 16:08:49 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Neil Harris <neil@tonal.clara.co.uk>
Cc: Jason Sloderbeck <jason@positivenetworks.net>,
Phillip Vandry <vandry@TZoNE.ORG>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:58:26 +0200
In-Reply-To: <42E90931.4090006@tonal.clara.co.uk> (Neil Harris's message of
"Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:34:57 +0100")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Neil Harris:
> But since the TLD registry operators can, and do, control the delegation
> of their TLDs, they have de-facto control over the sets of labels that
> can be used for second-level domain labels that are publically visible
> within their TLD domains,
I just don't see why this label is particularly important. If the
domain name is sufficiently long, it's not even displayed by current
browsers.
Even if this is fixed, how many users are aware that you have to read
domain names from right to left?
