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Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com

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Post by tlrobinson » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:02 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #19

vbezhenar wrote: post #16

What about Googlé.com and infinite number of other variations?

Why is everyone thinking so small? What about https://www.goоgle.com ? Or how about the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary? http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gulliblе

Not sure why you're getting downvited, people seem to have missed your clever use of the Cyrillic "o".

Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com

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Post by VMG » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:04 PM UTC

Entangled wrote: post #3

Web browsers should have an option to show non-ascii chars in urls in red.

"Neat, Sparkasse now even has a colored domain name! Now where did I put my TAN device again?"

- Average User

Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com

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Post by vbezhenar » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:04 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #19

vbezhenar wrote: post #16

What about Googlé.com and infinite number of other variations?

Why is everyone thinking so small? What about https://www.goоgle.com ? Or how about the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary? http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gulliblе

I think, it's impossible to register this domain.

Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com

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Post by bmmayer1 » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:06 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #19

vbezhenar wrote: post #16

What about Googlé.com and infinite number of other variations?

Why is everyone thinking so small? What about https://www.goоgle.com ? Or how about the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary? http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gulliblе

Stupid question, how did you do that? What characters are you using?

Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com

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Post by alessioalex » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:11 PM UTC

This just redirects me to http://xn--oogle-wmc.com/ so I know it's not the real google (using Chrome).

Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com

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Post by joncrocks » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:17 PM UTC

I believe now that browsers have support for non-ascii URLs, each of them have schemes for anti-phishing.

See https://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/

and https://wiki.mozilla.org/IDN_Display_Algorithm

plus http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/idn-in-g...

Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com

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Post by angry-hacker » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:23 PM UTC

Entangled wrote: post #3

Web browsers should have an option to show non-ascii chars in urls in red.

Cool, my head of marketing department wants a RED domain.

Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com

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Post by talideon » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:23 PM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #24

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack

Most registries did a better job on constructing their IDN tables than Verisign did. :-(

Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com

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Post by vbezhenar » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:25 PM UTC

bmmayer1 wrote: post #34

StavrosK wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is everyone thinking so small? What about https://www.goоgle.com ? Or how about the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary? http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gulliblе

Stupid question, how did you do that? What characters are you using?

Second "o" is in fact Cyrillic "о" which looks indistinguishable from Latin "o" (unless you use some weird font without Cyrillic letters).

Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com

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Post by freshyill » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:26 PM UTC

bmmayer1 wrote: post #34

StavrosK wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is everyone thinking so small? What about https://www.goоgle.com ? Or how about the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary? http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gulliblе

Stupid question, how did you do that? What characters are you using?

I frequently have to deal with lots of scientific, mathematical, and many other unusual characters.

I use http://unicode-table.com to help figure out what's what. The official Unicode specifications[1] is impenetrable, and it's really hard to deal with.

[1] http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/