Mozilla Drops Support for International Domains

tsu doh nimh writes "Netcraft has the story that Mozilla has decided to drop support for international domain names in future versions of its Firefox Web browser. The decision comes after demonstrations by the Schmoo Group that the feature can be used to aid in phishing scams and other browser naughtiness." From the article: "The attack can be disabled in Firefox and Mozilla by setting 'network.enableIDN' to false in the browser's configuration (enter about:config in the address bar to access the configuration functions). The Mozilla development team today made this the default setting. Users who want IDN support will be able to turn it on, but will be warned about the risks involved."

Comments

NOOOOOO!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Not .cx!!?!? Don't drop support for .cx!!!

Re:Mozilla is an American project

[Anonymous Coward]

What's this "international" thing people keep talking about?

It's where you go to fight wars.

Re:Those dirty foreigners

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, dirty foreigner is you

Re:Correction

[tehshen]

Actually, my favourite is the Cook Islands, because then we can have .co.ck

Re:Drops?

[erroneus]

Yeah, I wanted to say the same thing so I'll just say it here. They will have disabled it in new downloaded versions... I haven't seen a new release yet but I'm sure the next release it will be disabled by default. Hope it comes about soon but for now... I guess I'll have to switch back to MSIE where I *know* I'll be safe from that ONE kind of attack.

Guess I'll have to get a day job.

[Cyburbia]

That's too bad. I just registered bánkofamerïca.com, too.

Well..

[raehl]

It's used to send me money, of course.

Thanks,
Qal