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by dimaor 968 days ago
"according to the browser, which means there will probably be a warning message on most browsers"

if my browser automatically assumes missing an r in a domain name is phishing (without the domain being blacklisted somewhere) I am moving browsers.
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m3047 968 days ago
Yah. What about "ycombinatorr" or "ycombinatoor" or "yombinator" or...

This stuff is very common. The easiest way to find it is to locate infrastructure associated with one homology (nameservers, or IP addresses of nameservers or hosting) and then see what other domains are on those servers / hosting, assuming you have access to a crowdsourced Passive DNS database.

(Crowdsourced in this case is important, and I draw a distinction because most commercial PDNS DBs are crowdsourced, and I offer free software which synthesizes PTR records from locally observed PDNS because it serves a different purpose.)

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dimaor 967 days ago
nothing about them...

if I as a user want something to _correct_ me, well and good. but the browser should never make those assumptions for me. it might actually work well with ISPs, but not browsers.

what about websites which actually make a _pun_ on words and are trying to be funny? switching one letter / word, etc...

not everything is serious and not everything (I think nothing, actually) should be decided by some one else. IMO.

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