[dns-operations] Wacky idea of the week

Marco d'Itri md at Linux.IT
Sun Jul 25 23:48:14 UTC 2010


On Jul 26, Jay Daley <jay at nzrs.net.nz> wrote:

> This morning (yes it's morning here) we started to accept IDN registrations and that means we have to go through all sorts of hoops telling the browser manufacturers.  I would much rather we could have just published a policy indicator under .nz that the browsers detected and used IDNs.

How would this work? Browser vendors use an IDN whitelist because they
want to check that the TLD operators have a policy to prevent
registration of homographic domains.

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ciao,
Marco



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