Gmail Now Rejects Emails With Misleading Combinations of Unicode Characters 79
An anonymous reader writes: Google today announced it is implementing a new effort to thwart spammers and scammers: the open standard known as Unicode Consortium's "Highly Restricted" specification. In short, Gmail now rejects emails from domains that use what the Unicode community has identified as potentially misleading combinations of letters. The news today follows Google's announcement last week that Gmail has gained support for accented and non-Latin characters. The company is clearly okay with international domains, as long as they aren't abused to trick its users.
Sounds bad (Score:2, Insightful)
If I start a business with a unicode domain, and if later a scammer registers an ascii domain that is similar looking, then Gmail will blackhole my business, not the scammer, because I'm the one using unicode.
whack-a-mole 3.0 (Score:2, Insightful)
And the latest round of whack-a-mole begins...