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How many could there possible be? 1000? 5000? If google had to spend $50,000/year to never have to worry about this, it would easily be worth it.
by qntty 10y ago
How many could there possible be? 1000? 5000? If google had to spend $50,000/year to never have to worry about this, it would easily be worth it.
- dogma1138 10y agoProbably considerably more, basically depending on how many unicode variations that would render into graphically similar latin font characters of G,g,O,L,l,E,e and then you have all the permutations. So that's probably a few 10,000's overall and then you need to register them for every top level domain that Google operates in so, com., de., co.uk. etc... Overall there are probably a like 100,000's domains that can be registered, under Google.tld_x alone, more if you count in all the other services they have. It will cost a small fortune for an individual even in bulk registration prices but still it's more than affordable for a company the size of Google. That said using cyrillic is even better http://www.miсrosoft.com http://www.miсrosoft.com doesn't looks any different than http://www.microsoft.com http://www.microsoft.com but it translates to http://www.xn--mirosoft-gch.com/ http://www.xn--mirosoft-gch.com/
- shawnz 10y agoIf there are just 5 alternate ways to represent each letter, that's already over 15000 domains.
- planteen 10y agoIf bidi control characters are allowed (not sure if they are), it's even worse. Then you could have something like *elgoog display as google