ICANN discovers that Latin isn't everything.

and the first "WTF is that" address goes to.... http://ïðåçèäåÃ*ò.ðô/

Yep, ICANN has enabled Arabic and Cyrillic domains.
The next few months of phishing attacks should be very interesting...

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Web addresses formerly based only on 37 characters--A though Z, the 10 numerical digits, and the dash symbol--can now use 90,000 characters from several languages, many of these being Chinese characters. And just as a capital "O" and a zero look similar, various characters within other languages do, too.

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That visible URL actually doesn't translate into a destination URL for me...

But yeah, this is going to open up a whole new range of possible scams. Because you're not going to be able to tell when that Chinese site is legit or not. And often it won't be.

Don't know if its the forums, the languages installed with the OS, IE, or Chrome; but the link works now (for me). You may notice that the working link does not look like the actual address.
This is going to be such a fucking headache.

Reading up on it, the DNS is changing it to Latin, since that still works in Latin only.

It's not like the text matters. It's all still numbers in the end.

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Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy

It's not like the text matters. It's all still numbers in the end.

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Two numbers. :o

Not working for me either.

At the end of the day, I'm likely only to ever go to English-language websites so its not going to make any difference for me whatsoever - or most other people here. Yes a lot here for whom Dutch or something else is first-language, but that's still primarily latin characters.

Työnnä anglofiilinen pääsi perseeseesi, perkeleen tuhkamuna!