[UA-discuss] Once again
David Conrad
david.conrad at icann.org
Wed Jun 27 15:56:37 UTC 2018
I suspect that might be triggered by:
https://info.farsightsecurity.com/farsight-idn-research-report?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscodebook&stream=technology <https://info.farsightsecurity.com/farsight-idn-research-report?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscodebook&stream=technology>
From the executive summary:
Among the key findings:
100M total IDN resolutions observed; 27M unique fully qualified domain names (FQDNs)
8,000 IDN homographs representing or containing a top global brand name
Unicode “confusables” make up a significant percentage of the characters found in IDNs; 91% of all characters observed in IDN homographs are considered “confusable” -- a “confusable” is a Unicode code point that is often easily confused with other characters, ligatures, and/or digraphs.
Brands in banking and other related sectors are frequently imitated using IDN homographs with ~750 unique FQDNs observed per month
91% of IDN homographs offered some sort of webpage
We found clear violations of the ICANN Guidelines for the Implementation of Internationalized Domain Names
66% of all IDN homograph IP addresses were found to be geolocated in the United States
93% of IDN homograph FQDNs had IPv4-based address records
Regards,
-drc
> On Jun 27, 2018, at 10:27 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
>
> I see, via Slashdot, that the BBC is once again promoting this problem:
>
> https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/06/26/2031212/scammers-abuse-multilingual-domain-names <https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/06/26/2031212/scammers-abuse-multilingual-domain-names>
>
> A
> --
> Andrew Sullivan
> ajs at anvilwalrusden.com <mailto:ajs at anvilwalrusden.com>
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