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Re: [idn] homograph attacks



At 01:20 05/02/18, Erik van der Poel wrote:
>William Tan wrote:

>So it is not really fair to the IDN registrants to require them to state what language or set of languages their domain name is intended to be in, since DNS has not previously imposed such a restriction, and a lot of domain names have already been registered under this relaxed convention.

Very much agreed. Except for registries with very special
policies (such as the blocking used by some East Asian
registries), the language association doesn't make too
much sense.

Immagine that a gTLD registry had a few hundred language tables,
and immagine that a registrant wanted to register a particular
sequence of characters. It would be very easy for a registrar
to set up a service that figured out a language (don't care
which) that worked, and register the name with that language.

Regards, Martin.