On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:18:07PM -0800, Erik van der Poel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 218 lines which said:
> As George points out, the registries are going to have to start > filtering IDN lookalikes, otherwise they will eventually face > lawsuits from the "big boys" (as George so delightfully puts it). Quite the opposite: according to our lawyer, if the process is completely automatic (no human eyes involved), you can disclaim any responsability. But if you do screen, you accept a liability if the screening fails (and it will fail, trying to catch homographs is an hopeless task). I seriously doubt that european registries, which all moved from a "screen every domain to check if it is legal" model to a "accept anything" model in the '90s will go back...
