damn, the level of sophistication that attacks can reach. I didn't know this, thanks @RealTryHackMe
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1. Domain names were originally composed of Latin characters a-z and 0-9.
2. In 1998, IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) was implemented to support language-specific script or alphabet from other languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew and others.
3. Different letters from different languages can appear identical, such as Unicode character U+0430 (Cyrillic small letter a) and Unicode character U+0061 (Latin small letter a).
See the image from above
See the image from above
4. This enables attackers to register a domain name that looks almost identical to another.
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