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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:39:00 -0400
On Jun 29, 2008, at 5:45 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:53:06PM +0200, Jeroen Massar <jeroen () unfix org> wrote a message of 49 lines which said:not even thinking of all the nice security issues which come along (home, mycomputer and .exe etc anyone ?This requires serious elaboration. How could you use a domain in ".exe" to actually attack someone? (No handwaving, please, actual study.)
I think it would be the other way around - I would assume that that was a near worthless TLD, as it would come with a built in DOS : If I had (say) program.exe as a domain name,
what Windows user would ever type it in ? Regards Marshall
Thank you people doing all the ICANN politics for destroying the Internet.The Internet, until now, resisted to forces much more powerful than ICANN.
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- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] (Jun 28)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs David Conrad (Jun 28)
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- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Marshall Eubanks (Jun 29)
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