[UA-discuss] Once again

[Maxim Alzoba]

Hello David, 

Were pairs like 1 and l , 0 and o in latin script analyzed?
(it might give better perception of what it going on and if the confusion is limited to IDNs or is it a general issue)

Sincerely Yours,

Maxim Alzoba
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> On 27 Jun 2018, at 10:56, David Conrad <david.conrad at icann.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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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