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Re: Internationalized domain names in the root


From: Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 22:57:43 +0200


On 2010-05-06, at 22:27, Zaid Ali wrote:

Now if I understood arabic only and was travelling or happen to use Firefox
which showed punycode how would I trust it?

I agree, that seems like nonsense.

The answer for non-Arabic-speakers who are concerned about whether an Arabic URL is a phishing site is presumably just 
not to follow any Arabic URLs. They're surely intended for people that don't have that problem.


Joe



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