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Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing

  • From: Florian Weimer
  • Date: Thu Jul 28 16:09:50 2005 
* Neil Harris:

> But since the TLD registry operators can, and do, control the delegation 
> of their TLDs, they have de-facto control over the sets of labels that 
> can be used for second-level domain labels that are publically visible 
> within their TLD domains,

I just don't see why this label is particularly important.  If the
domain name is sufficiently long, it's not even displayed by current
browsers.

Even if this is fixed, how many users are aware that you have to read
domain names from right to left?