Using Unicode in domain names can cause problems, in that it’s easier to spoof websites by capitalizing on visual similarities between scripts – this is known as an IDN homograph attack.

Cyrillic, zero-width letters and other Unicode oddities allow those with more nefarious intentions to set up a domain that, when rendered, displays as a well-known website.

In his blog post on Monday, Vishu Gupta of the Internet Explorer development team wrote about the use of Punycode to help make the internet more "international." By utilizing Punycode, Internet ...

Unicode characters representing alphabets such as Greek, Cyrillic, and Armenian in internationalised domain names look the same as Latin letters to users, but are treated differently by computers ...

Phishers and other online crooks are taking advantage of Unicode domain names in their pursuit of your passwords and other sensitive information. Here’s a simple way to protect yourself.

This step should not be viewed as an indication that ICANN will now be taking an "anything goes" approach to Unicode domain names; their internationalization guidelines prohibit the use of ...

A recently discovered bug affecting what domain names could be registered left a huge opening for malicious actors looking to scam people.

When IE 7 has prevented a domain name from being viewed as Unicode, an “information bar” notifies the user. Also new will be a “phishing filter” where target domain names are checked to ...

Domain-name registrar Chinese Domain Name Corp (C-DN) aims to encourage wider adoption of multilingual domain names through changes to its name server system.