On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:57:16 +0100 RW wrote:
> > >if idn decode gives 7bit domain hostname, its a fake domain > > > If he meant something like > > xn--example.com > > it seems unlikely that *any* registrar would allow that to be > registered as an ordinary ascii domain. Actually xn--example.com doesn't decode to example.com because in the absence of a "-" separator "example" would be treated as encoded non-ascii characters. This means that it's impossible to encode an ASCII domain as an IDN because each decoded label has to encode back to the original.
