[UA-discuss] [Ext] Once again

Maxim Alzoba m.alzoba at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 17:50:43 UTC 2018


Hi David, 

I meant to that it might be good to avoid misconception of "IDN only issue".
(unfortunately I downloaded it and read)

The Report itself does not have anything about latin script issues.

 P.s: they even failed to check which TLD are using Cyrillic Russian script (done easily via IANA script page
https://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables
)
for example did not mentioned (and most probably did not review) .москва(.xn--80adxhks) with 15k domains, 
but mentioned .дети(xn--d1acj3b) with <1.5k

P.P.s: reviews which see wiki as a creditable source of information are ... entertaining



Sincerely Yours,

Maxim Alzoba
Special projects manager,
International Relations Department,
FAITID

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> On 27 Jun 2018, at 11:15, David Conrad <david.conrad at icann.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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,
>> 
>> Maxim Alzoba
>> Special projects manager,
>> International Relations Department,
>> FAITID
>> 
>> m. +7 916 6761580(+whatsapp)
>> skype oldfrogger
>> 
>> Current UTC offset: -5.00 (Panama)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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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