Re: homograph attacks

Martin Duerst wrote:
> Very much agreed. Except for registries with very special
> policies (such as the blocking used by some East Asian
> registries), the language association doesn't make too
> much sense.
> 
> Immagine that a gTLD registry had a few hundred language tables,
> and immagine that a registrant wanted to register a particular
> sequence of characters. It would be very easy for a registrar
> to set up a service that figured out a language (don't care
> which) that worked, and register the name with that language.

However, as the East Asian languages might cause blocking,
every .COM user is required to provide a language tag. So
in that sense, every gTLD will have very special policies.

Regards,
Martin