To reduce phishing, it would be nice to be able to block all IDNs (internationalized domain names) with a single checkmark. For example, paypal.com with the “a”’s are Cyrillic characters and the rest are Latin letters look the same as paypal.com the famous banking site in all Latin characters.
IDNs have 2 hyphens as the 3rd and 4th characters of the domain name (e.g. xn--bcher-kva.com), so it would be relatively easy to write an algorithm that matches that criteria.
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IDNs have 2 hyphens as the 3rd and 4th characters of the domain name (e.g. xn--bcher-kva.com), so it would be relatively easy to write an algorithm that matches that criteria.
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