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I thought there were supposed to be registry rules preventing similar looking names to be registered as an idna. I guess not.
by chaz6 10y ago
I thought there were supposed to be registry rules preventing similar looking names to be registered as an idna. I guess not.
- shshhdhs 10y agoI believe they aren't preventative measures, but responsive. So if Google contacts ICANN, then they may do something about it
- darkr 10y agoSome registries do this automatically. Some don't.
- talideon 10y agoYes and no. One of the problems is that Verisign's handling of IDNs wasn't exactly the best conceived, which left them with silly IDN codepoint tables like this: https://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables/tables/com_latn_1.2.txt https://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables/tables/com_latn_1.2....