[UA-discuss] [Ext] Once again

David Conrad david.conrad at icann.org
Wed Jun 27 16:15:22 UTC 2018


Hi Maxim,

You mean you want me to actually read the paper instead of just the executive summary?  :)

(A bit buried right now during the ICANN meeting)

Regards,
-drc

> On Jun 27, 2018, at 11:02 AM, Maxim Alzoba <m.alzoba at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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,
> 
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>> On 27 Jun 2018, at 10:56, David Conrad <david.conrad at icann.org <mailto: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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