[ILUG] regexps for domains

Colm Buckley colm at tuatha.org
Thu Aug 11 18:09:46 IST 2005


>> Not to mention how much fun you can have if you also consider that  
>> Scandinavian characters as well as Eastern Asian characters are  
>> now also allowed in domain names..

Technically, they're not - they're encoded before being actually  
represented in the DNS.  And (yay), the encoding doesn't map all  
identical-looking Unicode glyphs the same way, leading to all sorts  
of hilarious security issues.

     Colm

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