Re: Internationalized domain names in the root

[Zaid Ali <zaid () zaidali com>]

I agree Safari experience looks much nicer and yes whole host of potential
malice to arise. Firefox shows punycode

 http://xn--4gbrim.xn----rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/ar/default.aspx

Now if I understood arabic only and was travelling or happen to use Firefox
which showed punycode how would I trust it? If it was directly translated to
latin characters I could trust it with verification from someone I know who
understands english. I would not trust puny code because an end user does
not know what it means, I think there is potential for a lot of issues here.

Zaid  


On 5/6/10 11:45 AM, "Geoff Adams" <gadams+nanog () avernus com> wrote:

> On 5 May 2010, at 2:16 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
> > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:34 AM, David Conrad <drc () virtualized org> wrote:
> > > Perhaps a bit off-topic, but some folks might get support calls...
> > >
> > > http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر/
> > >
> > > (that's Arabic for <Ministry of Communications>.<Egypt>)
> >
> > Great progress and interesting addition to the root, only issue is
> > that after all the work with IDNs you land on a page written in
> > english (web browser lang does not matter, name resolves to the same
> > IP as the original URL). Hope they soon take advantage of the new name
>
> The page shows up in Arabic for me in all three of Safari (in which the URL
> bar also shows the Arabic name), Chrome and Firefox (in both of which the URL
> bar shows the encoded US-ASCII characters for the domain name). I tested using
> the Mac versions of these three browsers, and English is set as my preferred
> language. Arabic doesn't appear until much farther down on the list.
>
> The Safari experience looks nicer, but I suppose it leaves its users more
> susceptible to maliciously-constructed domain names that look similar to
> well-known ones. I wonder if they've addressed that issue in some way. I
> haven't been checking recently.
>
> - Geoff