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Brandon Butterworth wrote: Unfortunately, the problem is inherent in human writing systems. Consider rnicrosoft.com and paypaI.com.I don't think it's a good idea to introduce a system with a knownAlready, some 21 TLDs are whitelisted, including .cn, .tw, a number The good news is that fairly simple homograph rules can be applied to collapse the namespace into visually distinct labels: see TR #36. See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279099 for a lengthy group discussion of the issues involved. As a side-effect of this, implementing either a blocking bundling or inclusive bundling policy has the effect of precluding a registry from selling potential spoofs to others. The former requires no change to existing software, apart from a check at name registration time; the latter requires either the generation of huge zonefiles, or a few lines of code and a ~128kbyte static lookup table to be added to DNS server software: see RFC 3743 for more detail than you ever wanted to know about bundling. Neither is beyond the wit of man, particularly given commercial pressure from registry customers. Neil (my personal views only, not that of any organization)
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