ShadowWind opened this issue on Feb 08, 2005 ยท 6 posts
ShadowWind posted Tue, 08 February 2005 at 3:43 AM
Attached Link: http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt
I saw this on one of the domain name boards I belong to. The text is a little technical, but what it comes down to is that a crook could use paypal.com where one of the a's is a foreign character, which translates in some browsers as a much longer, more complicated URL (called an IDN domain). It can look just like paypal.com to you though and have a spoof site to collect info about you. So be careful. Always type in the paypal address (or get it from your favorites). Don't click on an email to go to it. You can read more about it at the link. Also, for anyone that buys domains on Ebay, be careful if you see an impossible to believe deal on something like poker.com that would be worth millions, selling for hundreds. These are usually IDN names.