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Re:Show HN: How good are you at spotting lookalike domains? by awillen on Saturday January 18, 2020 @09:48PM (#22089037)
The problem with this is that when you do it, you're actively looking for lookalike domains. The challenge is when an email or link otherwise seems very legitimate, so you have your guard down.
Re:Show HN: How good are you at spotting lookalike domains? by kmlx on Sunday January 19, 2020 @04:05AM (#22090304)
yes. very much this! it's harder to spot a fake domain when subdomains and browser shenanigans are involved when writing an email for example than when a game called "spot the fake" is played.
Re:Show HN: How good are you at spotting lookalike domains? by Apocryphon on Saturday January 18, 2020 @05:06PM (#22087615)
Could use a countdown clock. This isn’t so challenging if you tahs your time with it.
Re:Show HN: How good are you at spotting lookalike domains? by zamadatix on Saturday January 18, 2020 @07:39PM (#22088527)
Anyone else having this issue with the display https://i.imgur.com/Bk2Gzee.png

Edit: figured it out, it seems the font size is based off of the Window size (which doesn't make any sense) and scales faster than the box scales. Works best if you make your browser window phone width.

Re:Show HN: How good are you at spotting lookalike domains? by Bilters on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @09:55AM (#22107403)
I was expecting this to be harder as well. With swapped unicode letters. Maybe you should make them different levels, 1 = easy like you had, 2 = with upside down letters, 3 = greek letter replacement (unicode swapping)
Re:Show HN: How good are you at spotting lookalike domains? by zzo38computer on Saturday January 18, 2020 @03:43PM (#22087047)
Fortunately I know the form of a URL (anyone who uses them ought to know, and if you don't know, then you must learn), and I use a fixed pitch font on the status bar and location bar. I also fixed it to display only ASCII characters in the location bar, so that homoglyph attacks are also avoided.
Re:Show HN: How good are you at spotting lookalike domains? by maxfan8 on Saturday January 18, 2020 @10:43PM (#22089296)
Most modern browsers are designed to prevent IDN homoglyph attacks by using Punycode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

This shouldn't be much of a concern these days.

Re:Show HN: How good are you at spotting lookalike domains? by zzo38computer on Saturday January 18, 2020 @11:58PM (#22089564)
In the domain name, yes it uses Punycode, and I have configured it to display the ASCII domain name rather than the Unicode characters; this is an option in the browser. However, there is also the file name, which there seems no option to configure, so I used userChrome.js to change it so that it always displays ASCII for the entire URL and not only the domain name.
Re:Show HN: How good are you at spotting lookalike domains? by trumbitta2 on Monday January 20, 2020 @11:52AM (#22100107)
darn paypal.corn XD
Re:Show HN: How good are you at spotting lookalike domains? by omani on Saturday January 18, 2020 @10:19PM (#22089182)
netflix got me.