[105547] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Balazs Laszlo)
Fri Jun 27 04:08:31 2008
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:28:33 +0200
From: Balazs Laszlo <lbalazs@lib.unideb.hu>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <C0F2465B4F386241A58321C884AC7ECC06E1D9D5@E03MVZ2-UKDY.domain1.systemhost.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
michael.dillon@bt.com i'rta:
>> There are probably some variations based on the zone,
>> languages, IDN'ability, etc., but it certainly is a good idea
>> to be bankofamerica.* for reasons that I think are obvious to
>> most of us.
>>
>
> To make it hard for your customers to figure out whether a URL
> is legitimately owned by the bank? To make it easier for evil guys
> to steal from your customers by registering bonkofamerica.*
Maybe somebody start a trusted service under a new TLD,
and you can block all the others.
Laszlo Balazs
