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Re:Phishing attack uses Unicode characters in domains to clo... by syrrim on Saturday April 15, 2017 @09:33AM (#14120651)
In order to prevent anything, you would need to register every combination of latin and cyrilic. For a short domain like "epic" this constitutes 16 domains. For a 7 character domain it would be 128 domains. In either case it would be a heavy multiplier on the base cost of the domain.
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Re:Phishing attack uses Unicode characters in domains to clo... by MiddleEndian on Saturday April 15, 2017 @11:25AM (#14121112)
I don't think you're allowed to combine Latin and Cyrillic in a domain name. The issue is mainly that the two sets have identical looking characters.
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