The last week brought out Firefox a standard activated position introduced that international domain names impossibly makes with special signs. The step, meant to frustrate fraudeurs, is controversial.

Many International domainnaamadministrators its dissatisfied about the 'rash' decision domains with diakritische signs out to connect. A domain with for instance umlauts, becomes in Firefox 1.0.1 reproduced with the make up in punycode, through which the domain an addition xn- Gets, plus yet what other characteristics.

Mozilla, the foundation behind Firefox, says that the step necessarily is phishers – Swindlers – the wind from the sail to take. They disguise domain names, entice it nothing suspecting users away and try that to persuade personal data in to lead.

administrators of domain names mean however that the eliminating of international domain names (IDN) a horses means is. Moreover there are to disguise sufficient other methods a domain, as homografie: the letter l can be, to distinguish in a domain with difficulty of an i. Also the 0 (figures) and the o (letter) resemble for instance awful each other.

ICANN, that important infrastructure manages on internet, finds uitschakeling of IDN an unwanted limitation and calls subject on till discussion about this. In IT-periodical The Record is suggested that the browser – via an icon – can let know when a domain name not at the accepted standard satisfies.

He who rather all domain names unaltered sees, can via the Firefox-institutions (about: config in the task beam) the setting network. IDN_show_punycode on false Set.

The largest criticism with the uitschakeling of IDN all international users is that Mozilla want to know limits implicitly to be especially genteresseerd in Engelstalige users – a region true diakritische signs only appearance.