Re: homograph attacks

Erik van der Poel <erik at vanderpoel dot org> wrote:

>> For a gTLD, the language tag comes in handy, so we
>> could apply different language tables to IDNs according to their
>> intended language.
>
> This is not really in the spirit of DNS itself, though. Before IDN was
> invented, people registered domain names that weren't in any language.
> For example, the name "microsoft" was not a word in any language when
> it was first introduced.

I hope Erik is able to get this message across, because I haven't,
despite many attempts.

For each of the following domain names, determine the "intended
language":

* google
* altavista
* yahoo
* m-w
* taco (this one may surprise you)

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/