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jacksonm
9th August 2007, 07:58 AM
If you don't know what IDN phishing domains look like, have a look at this thread:

http://www.idnforums.com/forums/12559-100-premium-single-letter-character-idns-for-sale-%E2%99%90-com-c%CE%BFm-com-%E3%81%88-net-%E7%BE%8A-net-%E2%98%86-net.html

The seller is trying to pass off about 20 domains as "Dictionary word IDN domains". What he really means is word that look like english dictionary words, but are in fact not english dictionary words and can not be typed with an english keyboard layout. Perhaps he needs a few more members to explain it to him in his thread why these type of domains are not to be advertised here...

[edit] it seems that his thread got sent to the dumpster for the second time now, so I will list one example here so you can see what they look like:

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shοp.com xn--shp-bzc.com
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I just found a commercial product which will protect against these type of IDN phishing domains:

http://www.idnwebshield.com/index.php/idnccd/?lang=en-iso-8859-15&menu=menuCurrentIdnCCD


Does anybody know if this was produced by one of our members?

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