Re: homograph attacks

At 12:37 18/02/2005, Erik van der Poel wrote:
>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:

I understand from sales and renewals that the registrants also have adopted 
a Chinese blocking.
I suggest you also go and visit the CNNIC site when you consider Chinese 
issues.
jfc


>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