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Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Aug 13 19:50:37 2007

From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:51:39 GMT
To: rdobbins@cisco.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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- -- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com> wrote:

>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 . . .
>

I don't think anyone could reasonably question the legitimacy for
someone like, say, Google, registering "gogle.com" or "goggle.com".

It should raise eyebrows, however, if "goggle.com" was registered
to RBusiness Network.

Or "allitalia.org", etc.

You get the idea.

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/



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