>> Not to mention how much fun you can have if you also consider that
>> Scandinavian characters as well as Eastern Asian characters are
>> now also allowed in domain names..
Technically, they're not - they're encoded before being actually
represented in the DNS. And (yay), the encoding doesn't map all
identical-looking Unicode glyphs the same way, leading to all sorts
of hilarious security issues.
Colm
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