Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 41666
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2006/2/2-3 [Computer/Domains] UID:41666 Activity:nil
2/1     Firefox 1.5.0.1 is out.
        In http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html it says
        "International Domain Name support for Iceland (.is) is now enabled."
        What's so special about the ".is" domain that it was disabled before?
        \_ Iceland now follows Firefox's policy on identical-looking domain
           names.  This is all about names like http://m1cr0s0ft.com, which were a
           minor annoyance in ASCII but have become a major annoyance in
           Unicode.  (For example, search google for "verisign IDN parody
           example".  That's not verisign.)  People have proposed lots of
           solutions, most of which require an impractical amount of work by
           the user (e.g. hover over a domain name to see what character sets
           it uses) or make non-English domain names look ugly (e.g. display
           non-ASCII characters in a different color).  The only decent
           solution so far has been for registrars to do the work, and so
           most registrars now have a policy to prevent two different people
           from registering domain names that look the same.  However, some
           registrars (Verisign) don't do this, so Firefox doesn't display
           Unicode domain names from them.  Whenever a registrar adopts a
           decent policy, they get added to the whitelist (csua.org/u/evq).
           --mconst
        \_ It's probably not that the domain was disabled, it's that
           Firefox will now understand Icelandic characters in domain names.
             -tom
        \_ If you ask me they wanted to test the new update system, and what
           better way than with a relatively innocuous update.  For those
           interested:  According to the site there's also some stability,
           memory leak, and security fixes too.
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