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Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:25:53 +0900
Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
(The actual policy for the .UA registrar is more subtle. They *do* in fact allow "U+0441 Cyrillic Small Letter ES" which is visually a C to us Latin-glyph users. However, they require at least one character that's visually unique to Cyrillic in the domain name.
Unique within what? Is a Cyrillic character, which looks like Latin E with diaeresis, a unique Cyrillic character? Is "CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE", which looks like Greek Gamma, a unique Cyrillic character? Is Greek Gamma, which looks like "CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE", a unique Greek character?
They also don't allow mixed Cyrillic/Latin scripts in one domain name).
Is a Russian word containing no unique (unique to ASCII) Cyrillic characters encoded as Latin character using ASCII, even though a Russian word containing unique (whatever unique means) Cyrillic character encoded as Cyrillic characters? It is obvious that such confused scheme encourage phishing a lot.
If the manufacturers of IE and Safari can't come up with a similar policy, then the people at Mozilla can use "We protect you from malicious names" as a marketing diffferentiation feature.
The only protection is to disable IDN. Masataka Ohta
Current thread:
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing, (continued)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Jimmy Hess (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Brandon Butterworth (Feb 10)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Landon Stewart (Feb 10)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Randy Bush (Feb 10)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Masataka Ohta (Feb 10)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Neil Harris (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Randy Bush (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing chris (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Javier Henderson (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Masataka Ohta (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Jimmy Hess (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Masataka Ohta (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Masataka Ohta (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Jimmy Hess (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Randy Bush (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Jimmy Hess (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Randy Bush (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Mark Andrews (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Landon Stewart (Feb 10)