Re: homograph attacks

Erik van der Poel <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Feb 2005 03:37:25 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.idn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

The .com and .net domains are operated by VeriSign:

http://icann.org/faq/#regrules

VeriSign appears to have adopted the Chinese blocking:

http://verisign.com/products-services/naming-and-directory-services/naming-services/internationalized-domain-names/idn-standards/idn-character-variants/page_002087.html

Do you know whether any of the other gTLDs have adopted the Chinese 
blocking?

Also, does any registry have blocking for any languages other than Chinese?

Thanks,

Erik