May 7, 2007
3:14 p.m.
Thanks for using cocaco1a.com as an example. Current WHOIS data:
(Note to people like me with bad eyes, that's a digit one between the o and a.) This is an issue that has come up all the time in discussions of IDNs, names that use different characters but look like familiar ones. For some reason, it's rarely been tied back to the similar things you've always been able to do with digit 1 and 0 for L, I, and O in ASCII names. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.