Domain Highlighting - Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) new Security feature

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Internet Explorer 8 hosts a cheeky little security feature called Domain Highlighting. This is a simple feature which highlights the Top Level Domain of a website in black while greying out the rest of the website link.

A Top Level Domain is the primary domain name of any site which can have any number of Subdomains. highlighting the Top Level Domain of a website in the address bar always ensures that the user is always aware of site he is in. This is very important when it comes to secured sites like your online banking website or a site like Paypal where the information you enter (anything from a access username and password to account & creditcard informations) is critical.

And, making this look very clearer and highlighted in the address bar from the rest of the link makes the user that extra vigilant about where he is and be sure he is in the website that he intended to visit and not a spoofed or phishing website.

Lets look at this in action. I’m in

http://mail.google.com/mail/

website and clearly highlights the “google.com” part of the URL making the rest greyed out. This is a simple thought than a technology evolution to secure you online but to me it is nicely thought out….