valdis.kletni...@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