12:15 Paypal or still raural? | |
| I guess all is well remembered that ICANN has approved the introduction of non-Latin domain names (Habr), including those consisting of the letters of the Russian alphabet. And most recently, the majority of American resources, including well-known Mashable published a shocking news for American Internet. Cchitaetsya that the Russian alphabet has many characters are very similar in Latin. Writes Mashable: Cyrillic scripts, which is the basis for the Russian language, shares some of the same letterforms as the Latin alphabet. What this means is that potential evil-doers could register a domain using non-Latin characters that appears to spell out a Latin word. As an example, which draws the attention of Mashable, a potential attacker registers a domain raural.com (domain letters in Russian) and catching cheap fish (her credit card information, etc.), which does not notice the difference in writing fake domain and the original paypal: Now my idea of ??the case: To my knowledge, the Internet is not walking any news from ICANN about the hybrid domain - if their names can be used as the Russian and English letters. Otherwise - yes, there is a possibility of substitution of the domain (note the two examples - paypal.com, written with the help of the Russian language and Latin and common raural.com). I do not think that the Internet really there are people who are not able to distinguish normal from paypal.com raural.com. Especially registration Cyrillic domains allowed only. Eu,. RF,. Su, but not in. Com. Ie in the near future this problem should not occur, especially in the domain. com. And if you look at the permissions on the sub-domains in Cyrillic. Eu,. RF,. Su is simply because these domains are no other identical literal equivalents in Cyrillic / Latin. So we have to deal with when someone started to sow panic, not understanding the case. Mashable, believing differently, it seems less popular source, TimesOnline, has published information about possible phishing Cyrillic domains. Even in an example of the notorious «paypal», which is the Cyrillic alphabet did not write that looked identical. In fact, surprising that such a "hot" news all believe - a topic for more than a thousand mashable retweets and ~ 2000 diggs. I am the way, has long been unsubscribed from Mashable, because it is not a resource which tells about the interesting new things. Too many "panic", advertising and vebdvanolnogo similarity of content. By the way, the test Russian ICANN domain with their wiki: IDNwiki | |
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