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[ PRIVACY Forum ] ICANN's Call For New Domain Names Brings Criticism,
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ICANN's Call For New Domain Names Brings Criticism, And $357 Million (+ my comments)
http://j.mp/LnWM1i (This message on Google+)
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http://j.mp/LnVGTb (NPR)
Another company, Afilias, says it applied for 305 top level domains,
either on its own behalf or for its clients. The company currently
operates .info and .mobi, among other enterprises. In a report for
All Things Considered, NPR's Yuki Noguchi spoke to Roland LaPlante, a
senior vice president at Afilias, about what companies want with the
new domains. "They'll have complete control over what goes on in
their top level domain. And that means in those domains there will be
no spam, no phishing, no malware, none of the other evil things that
are happening on the Internet today," LaPlante told Yuki. "So there's
a big security benefit to having your own top level domain,
particularly if counterfeiting has been an issue for you."
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I really have to call out this particular quote, because it's a
classic example of a Big Lie in action. It is the very *existence* of
all these new TLDs that will enable vast new empires of spam,
phishing, malware, and the rest, because bad players will forge and
use other obfuscation techniques to confuse Internet users via those
names. There is no need for them to actually be in those TLDs for
real -- and Afilias must already know this.
--Lauren--
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