On Friday 11 Feb 2005 9:13 am, Arthur van Dorp wrote: > > As such you shouldn't depend on the DNS to return reliable data, if > > it matters encrypt it using established chains of trust, be it GPG or > > HTTPS. > > That's the problem here. You can buy a valid SSL certificate for your > homographic domain. The chain of trust is broken. Certificate agencies > should immediately introduce procedures to prevent frivolous homograph > domains from being certified.
Oh I agree if this happens, but this is a step beyond just registering a domain. Although it can of course be revoked if it is misused - assuming everyone has working CRL lists in there https implementation - I mean they would be valueless without ;)
