If you’re waiting for the arrival of non-English domain names, don’t hold your breath, says Vint Cerf, father of the Internet/ICANN overlord. Well, you could hold it but, you know, you’d likely croak. Just a friendly warning/public service.
Officially, the Internet’s DNS supports only 37 characters – the letters of the Latin alphabet, 10 numerals and a hyphen. ‘Net gurus want to expand to Unicode, which could allow the use of non-English domains, but an exploit can make some characters that look alike, which could allow phishers easy access to new prey.
It’s early on a Monday, we’ll let the AP do the heavy lifting:
“Subbing one for the other can allow a scammer to register a domain name that looks to the human as ‘paypal.com,’ tricking users into giving passwords and other sensitive information at what looks like a legitimate site. It’s much like how scammers now use the numeral “1” sometimes instead of the letter “l” to trick users.”
More info here.
Via My Way News
