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Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Mon Aug 13 18:37:44 2007
In-Reply-To: <46998D43CA4FED489115621F79BDF6845D3ACA@gf-dc.GravityFree.local>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:37:13 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Aug 13, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Justin Scott wrote:
> Usually it revolves around the
> marketing department not being in-touch with the rest of the
> company and
> the wrong/misspelled domain name ends up in a print/radio/tv ad
> that is
> about to go to thousands of people and cannot be changed.
There's a case to be made that a policy which results in
organizations registering and owning domain names which are close to
the intended domain anme but represent a common typographical
transition is desirable from a security standpoint . . .
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