[105706] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Sun Jun 29 16:37:45 2008
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:36:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net>
In-Reply-To: <200806291713.m5THDR6g060037@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
>>> 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 ?
>>
> I think this would be one of the TLDs that they'd refuse.
> Then again, there are DOS commands that do end in .com (CHOICE,
> COMMAND, CMD, DISKCOMP, HELP,etc). More can be seen at :
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/72188
What about .stupid?
Gadi.
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>
> Tuc/TBOH
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