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Richmond wrote:

> Philip Herlihy writes:
> 
>> V@nguard.LH says...
>>>>> No wonder look-alike domains (using UTF8 characters instead of ASCII)
>>> don't get killed right away.
>>
>> How does that work?
> 
> 𝙸𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚜 𝚋𝚢 𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎.
I thought unicode homographs in domain names was a solved issue with 
IDNs, so they got translated to xn--punycodedstring.tld