the posting in LJ is quite ironic given that LJ was sold to a Russian company and is surviving perfectly with bi-lingual pages and domain in English. I don't see how a domain name is a "serious thing"
Maybe there aren't yet any top-level domains in Cyrillic, but there sure as heck are domains -- such as .com, with Cyrillic. I remember (a few years ago now, I think) that a security company bought one, and put up a site which appeared to have the same domain name as a famous site -- I forget which, but where the Latin 'e' was substituted with the nearly-identical looking letter in Cyrillic. It was a warning about possible spoofing/phishing attacks, where even the domain the link directed to looked legit. You'd need to cut and past the URL into a whois or other net tool to realize it was phishing.
Looked it up: It was paypal, but with the Cyrillic 'a', not the Latin one (and yes, I didn't go and put the properly encoded letter there).
That really isn't the point of what Medvedev was saying, I think, but still interesting to note that there could be many issues that would need working out.
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Looked it up: It was paypal, but with the Cyrillic 'a', not the Latin one (and yes, I didn't go and put the properly encoded letter there).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
That really isn't the point of what Medvedev was saying, I think, but still interesting to note that there could be many issues that would need working out.
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