Re: IDN spoofing

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Cary Karp writes:
> Particular note should be made of the forum at:
>
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/idn-homograph/

I especially like this quote:

   "Only Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, and LDH, which all are usually
    used in Japan, are allowed to be used in Japanese JP domain
    name. Characters that are visually similar to ASCII alphabets,
    i.e., Cyrillic character 'a', is not allowed; and thus IDNs that
    are similar-looking to ASCII domain names do not exist under .JP
    TLD.
    [...]
    "Therefore, it will hardly happen in Japanese JP domain name that
    ill-willed websites use domain names with characters visually
    similar to those used in existing ASCII domain names."

Since kanji are allowed how long will it take for someone to register
a domain name containing variant that differs only in a stroke or two?
I hardly think that restricting 'homographs' to existing ASCII domain
names insulates them from anything.

    -tree

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