I don't think Sedo really have an automated mean to distinguish between worthless/phishing-type IDNs and genuine words in non-Latin scripts.
But there are plenty of white lists available that are implemented by different browsers that would allow Sedo to show how the domain would look.
It should be listed on the auction by punycode according to those rules for most people.
Reverse the disclaimer so to speak.
NO ONE IS FINDING these auctions through search - they are finding them via the featured listing (which is clicking on a word that looks legit with a decent bid to further that illusion) or as active (with a decent bid)
I think the mention is sufficient:
I do too as it is quite prominent; however, I'm not sure whether laypeople understand what that means. The name is sold as the actual correct value and not how it will appear.
It's a form of homograph attack through auction. There are plenty of people who don't even understand that there are multiple code pages and what UTF is.
Problem is that people bid without doing research.
How do you research something you don't really understand that looks like something you think you understand?
I spent 4 weeks researching a $100 backpack so I don't understand $1100 on a domain that makes no sense but it's not necessarily that easy. You don't know what it's like to have no technology background.
Yet these names are confusing, I'm not really sure what the best approach would be. Ban IDNs ?
They are for the most part in most browsers in lots of the world based on the aforementioned whitelists
The whole thing was ill thought out was it not.
