homograph attack
A trick that uses characters that look alike, often from different scripts such as Latin and Cyrillic, to make a fake domain look like a real one. It is used in phishing Impersonating a trusted party to steal data, often with look-alike domains. Full definition of phishing. registry The central database and system of a top-level domain, or loosely the organization that runs it. Full definition of registry rules for IDN Internationalized Domain Name A domain name written in local scripts or with accented letters. Full definition of IDN and browser display rules help limit it.
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