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I believe it's called a "homograph attack", or at least that's one name for it. Wikipedia has an article on the internationalized-domain-name version of the attack, and the various attempts by registrars and browsers to mitigate it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack


On the same page. You can call them "Homograph Spoofing Attacks"




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