In a recent move ICANN decided it would be just fine if domain names used non-Latin characters.
Since the inception of online domain names, all addresses had to be in the Latin characters most of us are familiar with .The ICANN decision will mean addresses could use, for example, Russian Cyrillic or Asian characters. While this seems all well and good on the surface, there’s a problem lurking. It could let the bad guys run more effective phishing schemes.
A unicode font supports multiple languages simultaneously and can be a real help, but display a Cyrillic word in a Unicode font, and it may look completely different. It may even appear to be an English word.
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