Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com
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Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com
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Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com
#2For me it just redirects to
http://money.get.away.get.a.good.job.with.jack.ilovevitaly.com
Which is an Internationalized domain name[1] in punycode transcription
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
The G in question here is
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C9%A2
OR
Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com
#3Web browsers should have an option to show non-ascii chars in urls in red.
Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com
#4Web browsers should have an option to show non-ascii chars in urls in red.
And on by default
Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com
#5Some time ago I registered http://www.goolge.io/. Still haven't done anything with it, I guess at some point I'll just redirect it to duckduckgo. [EDIT: now it's redirected to duckduckgo.]
This can of course be used in a malicious way. I thought about rebuilding the homepage of the bank Credit Suisse on www.credit-siusse.ch, but that's probably illegal.
Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com
#6For me it just redirects to http://money.get.away.get.a.good.job.with.jack.ilovevitaly.com The actual domain is http://xn--oogle-wmc.com/ Which is an Internationalized domain name[1] in punycode transcription [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name The G in question here is https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C9%A2 OR http://charcod.es/#%C9%A2/610
>ilovevitaly.com
This Vitaly guy…
I got tons of referral header spam (that shows up in e.g. Google Analytics) for all sorts of social media buttons and EU cookie law scare tactic sites. And then there was Vitaly who just spammed me with ilovevitaly.com, which if I recall correctly actually was a site about himself at the time.
Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com
#7Web browsers should have an option to show non-ascii chars in urls in red.
They should already only show punycode for characters inside your locale.
'ɢ' is obviously an exception since (I imagine) it's considered to be in your locale, but maybe it shouldn't be.
Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com
#8I thought there were supposed to be registry rules preventing similar looking names to be registered as an idna. I guess not.
Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com
#9It was a pretty nice surprise that when sending this URL in Slack it was automatically converted to `xn--oogle-wmc.com`.
Re: Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com
#10I thought there were supposed to be registry rules preventing similar looking names to be registered as an idna. I guess not.
I believe they aren't preventative measures, but responsive. So if Google contacts ICANN, then they may do something about it