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Contarary to some common belief there are no security issues with IDN domains.
The IDN is simply a localizeed charset representation of english characters usually beginning with: xn--
Internationalized domain names exist in many languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew etc.
Below is an exmple:
עורך דין גירושין = http://www.xn—-4hccgdwbbc7cez3fhq.com/
גירושין הסכם = http://www.xn--6dbecpbnont9dm.com/
גירושין עורכי דין = http://xn--6dbcfasbbbp2bf4a8efk.com/
These examples are in Hebrew but IDN exist everywhere.
Move your mouse over the domain names an look at the lower part of IE to verify these are the same.
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