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Internationalized Domain Names IDN Security issues

By admin on Sunday, October 11, 2009
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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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