Re: quick & dirty (but not too dirty) homograph defense

This sounds like a fairly good idea, but some "commercial" ccTLDs are 
actually very liberal in their IDN implementations as well. An example 
would be nic.tm, which permits any Unicode character allowed by IDNA. 
There are others, but I can't remember.

wil.

Adam M. Costello wrote:

>Here's an idea for a quick-and-dirty enhancement to existing
>applications:  Rather than disable IDNA entirely (which is quick but
>too dirty), or flag all IDNs (almost as quick but still too dirty),
>just flag all IDNs in .com and .net.  This would be significantly less
>damaging to IDN deployment (which could proceed unhindered in the other
>TLDs, particularly the ccTLDs), but is still extremely simple and could
>be rolled out immediately while more sophisticated heuristics are
>developed.
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