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> The one technical challenge I suppose could be a concern would be optionally implementing some sort of test to detect domain registration attempts that use similar-looking characters to those in existing legitimate domains (e.g., registrations from scammers attempting phishing attacks with domains that look similar to other domains but use different extended characters).

This is called the IDN homograph attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack).




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