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00:00 Intro
00:30 What DNS?
02:37 The Issue with DNS
03:00 The Fix for the Issue with DNS
04:13 IDNA 2008
05:29 Issues with Emoji in Domains
07:33 IDNA 2008 Allows Specific Characters
08:04 Wait, There ARE Emoji .com Domains????

Other links from this video:
Fake pages I spun up to demonstrate how a homograph attack could work: https://.ws and https://☹☹.ws
1:32, Table of internet hosts by year: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php...
1:35, RFC 1034 (DNS): https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt
3:02, RFC 3492 (Punycode) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html...
5:55, Unicode FAQ https://unicode.org/faq/basic_q.html
6:32, ICANN publication on emoji in domain names: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files...
7:45, the full list of allowed/disallowed code points: https://www.unicode.org/Public/idna/i...