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Remember when we vainly attempted to train people how to distinguish between legitimate and spoofed domain names, such as in phishing emails? Remember when big
by Eleison23 4y ago
Remember when we vainly attempted to train people how to distinguish between legitimate and spoofed domain names, such as in phishing emails?
Remember when big tech companies started sending confirmation/survey emails with links to domain names indistinguishable from spoofed ones? 1drv.ms, I'm looking at you.
Now good luck convincing anyone that "xn--meagefactory-m9a.ca" is totally legit.
- Trombone12 4y agoYeah punycode is a bad "solution", it just makes most url look suspect. The comment about the Canadian rules shows that the confusion problem should be handled on the registrar level rather than the url bar.