NIST tool helps Web master top-level domains

May 18th, 2008 | Category: Computers

At the desire of a worldwide Web organization, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed an algorithm that may guide applicants in proposing new top-level domains the last part of an Net address, such as.com, that citizens type in navigating the Web. As new top-level domains are added to the familiar.com,.info and.net, the algorithm* checks

whether the newly proposed name is confusingly similar to existing ones by looking for visual likenesses in its appearance. Having visually distinct top-level domain names may help avoid confusion in navigating the ever-expanding Web and combat scam, by reducing the potential to create malicious look-alikes:.C0M with a zero instead of.COM, for instance……..

Orginal post by Computer blog from technology-blog.com

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