International URLs Pass First Test 159
Off the Rails writes "The BBC reports on the results of a successful test of non-ASCII domain names on Internet-equivalent hardware (pdf) carried out last October. The next stage is to plug the system into the net, and if it still works, it could go live sometime next year. 'Early work on the technical feasibility of using non-English character sets suggested that the address system would cope with the introduction of international characters tests were called for to ensure this was the case ... Also needed are policy decisions by Icann on how the internationalised domain names fit in and work with the existing rules governing the running of the address books. Icann is under pressure to get the international domain names working because some nations, in particular China, are working on their own technology to support their own character sets.'"
Re:Great (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Maybe not.. (Score:4, Insightful)
They could split unicode into sections (Score:3, Insightful)
Then only allow names and queries all from the same character set.
English "X" vs. Cyrillic "khah" (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:What about security issues? (Score:3, Insightful)
Phishing attacks mostly works not because people can't see a minute difference between two lookalike letters; they work because as long as nothing is utterly obviously, grossly out of order people just assume they're in the right place. You can have domain names that aren't even close to the real one, and websites with only superficial similarities to the original and a lot of people will still be duped.
Re:Great (Score:0, Insightful)
Nuh, Japanese porn girls sound like they are crying and/or in agony when they are having sex. Quite a turn off unfortunately.
Re:English "X" vs. Cyrillic "khah" (Score:3, Insightful)