Re: Mac OS X Safari and IDN spoofing

At 16:11 25/03/2005, Gervase Markham wrote:
>James Seng wrote:
>>i thought the ideas they have was pretty interesting
>>choose the scripts you use most often that you like to display normally 
>>but otherwise, will display in punycode.
>
>What sort of effect do you think it will have on IDN acceptance and use if 
>companies using IDN domains know that their domain name will display as 
>gobbledygook in an unknown percentage of their customer's browsers?

They will not if they are "babel names", ie names registered for their 
punycode display, such as "xn--cocacola.com".

I made a list in using Simon Josefsson oline tool and a small funycode 
program for Adam to test them. What he did. I do not remember the names I 
gave: I tried a few like xn--adam-costello.com, xn--vint-cerf.ibm, 
xn--gw-bush.com, etc. Many worked. If I am right the most brillant was 
xn--ibm.com which called for a single character IDN. The main issue is that 
if you TM the Unicode name there is nothing to be done.
jfc