Detecting Chinese Domain Name Piracy

Address spoofing is a remarkably effective way to trick a user into revealing confidential information. The advent of Internationalized Domain Name (IDN), which benefits non-native speakers of English to access the Internet, poses a new hazard with non-English characters employed in domain names. Chinese domain name, as an important part of IDN, is attracting more and more attention. Unlike alphabetic writing, the form of Chinese character is very complicated. There exist plenty of Chinese characters with similar shape or similar pronunciation, which is very confusing to users. Many of the traditional detection technologies cannot be applied to the new situation. In this paper, we perform a comprehensive study of Chinese domain name piracy, and put forward three detection methods accordingly. The experiment results show that these detection methods are feasible and effective.