From: CE Whitehead (cewcathar@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 25 2010 - 14:18:36 CST
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> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:27:23 +0530
> Subject: Re: Phishing and enforcing Confusables.txt
> From: samjnaa@gmail.com
> To: unicode@unicode.org
>
> Hello and thanks for all that info. However, the question stands, see below:
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:03 AM, CE Whitehead wrote:
>> "5. In implementing the IDN standards, top-level domain registries should, at least
>> initially, limit any given domain label (such as a second-level domain name) to the
>> characters associated with one language or set of languages only."
>
> Apart from that "at least initially" stuff, which indicates that it
> may change in the future, this really does not solve the problem or
> answer the question. I'll forgo the examples i gave previously as they
> involved mixed-script text.
>
> Now even *without* mixing scripts, examples can be provided as అరగ.com
> (all in Telugu) and ಅರಗ.com (all in Kannada). What is desired is that
> if the Telugu version has been first registered *anywhere in the
> world*, the Kannada version should be prohibited from being registered
> *everywhere in the world*, or vice versa with the scripts.
>
> Which leads me to note that *somehow*, Confusables.txt is missing a
> full-fledged confusables mapping between Kannada and Telugu. Of the
> construed example given above, it is obvious that RA and GA are almost
> identical between the scripts but Confusables.txt does not list them
> at all!
>
> This is a serious lacuna, IMHO, which should be rectified.
>
> Shriramana Sharma.
>
>
I am in agreement -- absolutely (of course the person registering has the option of registering both domain names now at his/her expense -- but that's not quite fair perhaps); thanks for the data on Telugu and Kannada; perhaps we should all contact ICANN then & get look-alikes bundled:
http://www.icann.org/cgi/contact/
Best,
--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar@hotmail.com
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