[105691] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sun Jun 29 12:39:11 2008
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20080629094542.GA10417@sources.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:39:00 -0400
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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:
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>> not even thinking of all the nice security issues which come along
>> (home, mycomputer and .exe etc anyone ?
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> 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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