Brian Krebs writes on how browsers choose to display IDN. The issue here is of course spoofing valid URLs with visually similar letters. You probably would notice the lame attempt in the department line but some of the international characters are very similar or indeed identical. Depending on your personal preferences it might be a good idea to use punycode instead. Could save you a headache later.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/look-alike-domains-and-visual-confusion/
Here are some of the applicable RFCs:
(Score: 4, Interesting) by requerdanos on Monday March 12 2018, @05:16PM
While true, that's not justification for the technically literate failing to take reasonable precautions on behalf of the not.
My bank's website + firefox or pale moon does suffer from this issue. "The user is visiting poorly designed sites" is a guarantee, not merely a required premise.
We should try to protect the fools. Those who insist on being fools who are fooled will be, but that won't be because we didn't try.
Educating people not to do this is part of protecting fools from foolishness, but it hasn't got very far. That's no justification for not taking other prudent measures.
According to Nielsen Norman Group research [nngroup.com], "complex" tasks like "navigation across pages and applications" or tasks that "involve multiple steps and operators" (basically, tasks that require thinking and not just blindly following steps by rote) are not within the abilities of over 2/3 of the adult population of first-world countries.
Look, as you know, you're not wrong. But the arguably simple things you cite above are still demonstrated to be "too complicated" for most, and the challenge for the 5% of the population that is technically proficient (as measured by the referenced study) is to design a system navigable by the other 95% without undue risks.
The 2016 article referred to above (which I urge anyone interested in this discussion to read), titled "The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think" and written by Jakob Nielsen, is summarized as "Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks." Over 200,000 people between the ages of 16 and 65 inclusive were tested on computer-related tasks. This is the best research available to us, and its results are that people are less capable than we usually assume. That's a hard lesson to internalize and plan from, but for those of us like you and me, who are in the top 5% and able to do arbitrary tasks on a computer that require thought and decision making, I would submit that it's our responsibility to do it because literally no one else is capable of doing so.
If, in spite of our best efforts, fools and their money/personal info/good reputation are still parted, then so be it.
But if we don't make that effort, then we share in responsibility for that parting. No need for that! The fools* can do it on their own.
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* My own foolish behavior has put me into this category more than once. I am saying "us", not "they."