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Re: ICANN proposes new way to buy top-level domains - Network World
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:16:29 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> Date: October 30, 2008 10:04:59 AM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net>Subject: Re: [IP] Re: ICANN proposes new way to buy top-level domains - Network World
The most likely outcome of this process is that TLDs will be created based on whoever has the deepest pockets and most desire to use domains en masse. At the top of the qualification list for that are spammers. Spammerscreate, use, discard and effectively render useless domains by the hundreds of thousands. (Note the recent, years-overdue ICANN action against dedicated
spam supporting registrar Estdomains, which is responsible for something on the order of a quarter million spammer domains. And this is just one example among dozens.)Right behind them are phishers, who will attempt to exploit user confusion over domain names, e.g., "first-national-bank.com.abcde" is likely to fool
quite a few people. They'll target any domain involving money, personal information, or potentially-useful authentication credentials.And right behind them are registrars who hope to coerce as much "defensive spending" as possible out of everyone with a well-known .com, .net or .org
domain in order to prevent the registration of ibm.abcde or google.abcdeor princeton.abcde and its subsequent use for spamming, phishing, redirection,
abusive search engine manipulation, etc.We don't need more TLDs. What we need ICANN to do instead is to shut down
the dozens of registrars operated by spammers/phishers. I'm not holding my breath. ---Rsk ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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