Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> I'd like to know what became of this discussion.  Most of the user
> training surrounding phishing seems to be about teaching users how
> to correctly parse the top two levels of the domain out of the URL,
> and that's a silly thing to waste effort trying to train humans to
> do when it's a trivial task for the computer.  Emphasizing or
> isolating the top two levels of the domain in the UI, though non-ideal,
> would be a positive move; IE would find itself playing catch-up to
> the Firefox UI yet again.

Except that "top two levels" is not the right heuristic. See
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Effective_TLD_Service
for what we are actually doing. And the Locationbar2 extension for some 
UI ideas.

Gerv
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