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Re:Impersonating the brave.com website to deliver malware by rspoerri on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:34AM (#28025548)
Did you read the text at all? The world speaks more then english.

Just 13% of the world speaks english. It is not a reference for how we do or should write on the web.

It would maybe make sense to restrict url display to the computers language setting.

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Re:Impersonating the brave.com website to deliver malware by unobatbayar on Sunday August 01, 2021 @09:19AM (#28026066)
The software world is dominated by English language, especially American English.

It does make sense to permanently disable Punycode.

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Re:Impersonating the brave.com website to deliver malware by dnzkw on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:36AM (#28025555)
That's good in theory. The reality is that punycode never took off anywhere in the world.

Unless you're proposing we let it live in case someone somewhere ever uses it. Then, sure.

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Re:Impersonating the brave.com website to deliver malware by tialaramex on Sunday August 01, 2021 @12:00PM (#28027244)
How does the popularity of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.%D1%80%D1%84 square with your theory that it "never took off anywhere in the world" ?

Of course that registry actually has a sane punycode policy, so such impersonations are impossible there, whereas they're happening all the time in .com. Maybe time to re-evaluate your idea of "reality" versus "theory".

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