[116012] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Jul 16 04:28:13 2009
To: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:27:58 +0000
In-Reply-To: <1b5c1c150907151452k52093694mc8b93538b4707f87@mail.gmail.com>
(Mike Lyon's message of "Wed\, 15 Jul 2009 14\:52\:44 -0700")
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Mike Lyon:
> So the question I have is this: What actual security are these proxy
> companies providing to the end-user?
You can register domains without alerting your competition that you
plan to provide a particular service (which could be guessed based on
the domain name). Or a merger is coming up, and you want to quietly
get the domain for the new company name.
OTOH, there doesn't seem to be a legitimate long-term use for business
purposes. (In my view, the secondary domain market is not
legitimate---online advertisers keep it alive to artificially increase
conversion rates, essentially defrauding brand owners who are
structurally unable to cope with this situation.)
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