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Old 07-01-2008, 01:25 AM   #74 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bzk90 View Post
Thats my point though, domains under the .gov TLD are controlled but if someone registers a similar TLD like .gòv there is nothing little preventing somebody from registering cia.gòv or irs.gòv

The majority of internet users can't distinguish between real websites and websites that are just holding place on a domain
IE
http://mcrosoft.com/
http://microsoft.com/

How can we expect them to notice the difference between an o or an o with a tilde (ò) or even omicron (о)

.gov
.gòv
.gоv
I don't think they would begin allowing those characters, especially since adding the new characters would break a lot of already created protocols based on DNS. But you'd be damn right that it would cause quite a bit of chaos if they did.
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