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Re:Google Is Battling a Russian Spammer Over the Use of the ... by shawnz on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:54AM (#13540679)
If there are just 5 alternate ways to represent each letter, that's already over 15000 domains.
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Re:Google Is Battling a Russian Spammer Over the Use of the ... by planteen on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:06AM (#13540756)
If bidi control characters are allowed (not sure if they are), it's even worse.

Then you could have something like *elgoog display as google

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