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by ksenzee 3456 days ago
Add Unicode and it gets worse. I don't trust my eyes to differentiate between Cyrillic а and Latin a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
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cbr 3455 days ago
Browsers only display unicode in domain names if the TLD has restrictions on character sets that prevent homograph attacks.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack#Defending...

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