How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google Analytics

Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by notatoad on Monday December 26, 2016 @08:36PM (#13260738)

i thought that when icann allowed non-latin characters in URLs, they were going to limit it to only the ccTLD where those characters were in common usage - so ԍooԍle.ru would be valid, but ԍooԍle.com wouldn't be registerable.

am i misremembering, or did that plan change? this just seems like a phishing nightmare.

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Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by 086421357909764 on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @12:43PM (#13264595)

I actually just ran a query on a domain using Google Domains and was offered a .com variant of an existing domain with the only difference, the letter c with a Hacek (Ĉ). Phishing nightmare indeed.

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