Comments on: ICANN: Preparing to internationalize domains http://www.multilingual-search.com/icann-preparing-to-internationalize-domains/17/03/2006/ Global Search Engine Marketing News And Global Social Media Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:04:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nick Wilsdonhttp://www.multilingual-search.com/icann-preparing-to-internationalize-domains/17/03/2006/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Nick Wilsdon Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:20:52 +0000 http://www.multilingual-search.com/icann-preparing-to-internationalize-domains/17/03/2006/en-GB/#comment-162 It's a great move for the non-English internet but I am concerned about the phishing dangers international domain names open up.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_names#Spoofing_concerns">Wikipedia on Spoofing with International Domains</a>I get several emails of this type a day (some are becoming very convincing!) and it is only by examination of the URL that you discover the destination URL is in fact <strong>not</strong> your bank/building society etc.I have seen that IE 7 is <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/12/19/505564.aspx">trying to tackle this</a> with a notification for the user but we're yet to see how well this will work. If people see this as a security threat they may well turn off the capacity for IDN all together which would hit the marketing potential of these sites. From the article referenced above.<blockquote>Users who do not wish to see Unicode addresses may set an Internet Control Panel option to “Always show encoded addresses”.</blockquote> It’s a great move for the non-English internet but I am concerned about the phishing dangers international domain names open up.

Wikipedia on Spoofing with International Domains

I get several emails of this type a day (some are becoming very convincing!) and it is only by examination of the URL that you discover the destination URL is in fact not your bank/building society etc.

I have seen that IE 7 is trying to tackle this with a notification for the user but we’re yet to see how well this will work. If people see this as a security threat they may well turn off the capacity for IDN all together which would hit the marketing potential of these sites. From the article referenced above.

Users who do not wish to see Unicode addresses may set an Internet Control Panel option to “Always show encoded addresses”.

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