[dns-wg] IDN registration question (VICTORY)

Marcos,

At 2016-04-22 15:27:42 +0200
Marcos Sanz <sanz at denic.de> wrote:

> > Note that both Firefox and Chromium refuse to display the
> > hieroglyphics in the URL bar. My guess is that they display any IDN
> > that they don't understand as punycode in order to minimize semantic
> > attacks (I think there is a hieroglyph for the sun that looks like a
> > circle that I guess could be confused for zero, so maybe this makes
> > sense? maybe?).  
> 
> since I had to do with this in the past, I happen to know how Firefox 
> works:
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/IDN_Display_Algorithm
> 
> The summary -after recursive resolution of all nested document calls- is 
> that hieroglyphs are candidate characters for exclusions from identifiers, 
> according to the Unicode Consortium:
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/#Table_Candidate_Characters_for_Exclusion_from_Identifiers

Hm... interesting.

Since these are candidate characters, one could argue for any given
character set to be included. I guess VeriSign should be doing that
since they are the only TLD that claims to support this character set,
but apparently they don't care that much.

> But your animated gif got a smile in my face.

It's just a link, Pirate Bay style. "No copyrighted material hosted
here, blah blah blah..." ;)

BTW, I had a look at the server logs and there were 45 unique IP, 24
from IPv6 hosts. Well done, RIPE DNS working group!

Cheers,

--
Shane
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