12 Feb
2012
12 Feb
'12
12:23 p.m.
The DNS "industry" is putting us a long way from when RFC 2826 was written. Christian On 12 Feb 2012, at 01:31, John Levine wrote:
Nice. Basically, unless the TLD registrar has a public policy that basically says "We don't allow names with cyrillic C to collide with MICROSOFT", their hostnames all get displayed as xn--gobbledygook.
More or less. ICANN has been wrestling with the lookalike character issue in domain names for about a decade. I think it's fair to say that everyone agrees that all solutions are less than totally satisfactory.
R's, John