Symantec Acquires VeriSign Division (IDN Reference)

[Patriot]

Verisign Article: 08/11/2010

"VeriSign is now free to squarely focus on its role in managing the .COM and .NET registries. "

VeriSign had a Second Quarter earnings call last week and when asked about areas for future growth,
IDNs were mentioned.
In particular, Mark McLaughlin, VeriSign’s President, referred to
“growth opportunities [such as] both the new gTLDs themselves plus
the internationalized version of the TLDs we run today.

http://idnblog.com/2010/08/11/symantec-acquires-verisign-division/

[squirrel]

Perhaps Verisign will now have the time to (have an intern) draft a policy with respect to homographic domains and send it to Mozilla ...

[blastfromthepast]

Perhaps Verisign will now have the time to (have an intern) draft a policy with respect to homographic domains and send it to Mozilla ...

Mozilla decided that the problem could be solved by having a white list of characters. But I don't see how this solves the problem at all.

[squirrel]

Verisign should do whatever has to be done

http://idn.icann.org/Firefox_Information
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html
can't believe all the tlds that are whitelisted, yet no .com and .net
what is so difficult ?