Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
(The actual policy for the .UA registrar is more subtle. They *do* in fact allow "U+0441 Cyrillic Small Letter ES" which is visually a C to us Latin-glyph users. However, they require at least one character that's visually unique to Cyrillic in the domain name.
Unique within what? Is a Cyrillic character, which looks like Latin E with diaeresis, a unique Cyrillic character? Is "CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE", which looks like Greek Gamma, a unique Cyrillic character? Is Greek Gamma, which looks like "CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE", a unique Greek character?
They also don't allow mixed Cyrillic/Latin scripts in one domain name).
Is a Russian word containing no unique (unique to ASCII) Cyrillic characters encoded as Latin character using ASCII, even though a Russian word containing unique (whatever unique means) Cyrillic character encoded as Cyrillic characters? It is obvious that such confused scheme encourage phishing a lot.
If the manufacturers of IE and Safari can't come up with a similar policy, then the people at Mozilla can use "We protect you from malicious names" as a marketing diffferentiation feature.
The only protection is to disable IDN. Masataka Ohta