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Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:34:31 -0700
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2355068,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05079TX1K0000 992 So have the security implications of these new domain names really been thought through?
No. If nothing else, expanding the TLD space expands the abuse footprint. Further, expanding the TLD footprint in areas which are not clearly 'recognizable' by some applications, etc., will certainly have a tendency to be targets for abuse by criminals. Of course, this may sound obvious -- and it is. But expanding the TLD space into the IDN direction is not all sunshine and rainbows -- it also opens up a whole new gateway for enormous abuse and exploitation. It should be obvious to anyone with a clue. :-) - - ferg p.s. I'm in Taipei at the moment, which should underscore the issues that I am talking about, et al. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFK7Dzhq1pz9mNUZTMRAgxlAJ9FzZzBmRmoPfN4EHhSRo2g19/WvQCgzCJO 5V6IySqInkTmQlkoxSqb1tk= =COHl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters Larry Seltzer (Oct 31)
- Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters Dan Kaminsky (Oct 31)
- Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters Paul Ferguson (Oct 31)
- Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters Larry Seltzer (Oct 31)
- Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters Larry Seltzer (Oct 31)
- Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters Dan Kaminsky (Oct 31)
- Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters chris (Nov 01)
- Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters Larry Seltzer (Oct 31)
- Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters Dan Kaminsky (Oct 31)
- Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters Buhrmaster, Gary (Oct 31)
- Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters Rich Kulawiec (Oct 31)
- Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters Dan Kaminsky (Oct 31)
- Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters Rich Kulawiec (Oct 31)
- Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters Florian Weimer (Nov 02)