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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Opening Phishing Holes with New Top-Level Domains
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Opening Phishing Holes with New Top-Level Domains
http://j.mp/Ntmm9N (Ask Leo)
"While the possibilities for phishing attempts leveraging the confusion
surrounding domain names far exceeds just the potential ".bank" gTLD,
that one has enough issues alone that The European Banking Authority
has told ICANN it believes that proposed financially-oriented gTLDs
such as .bank are dangerous and should be banned. Beyond simple
phishing the concern here is that having a ".bank" domain might imply
more - such as regulation and perhaps even legitimacy - to consumers
than it would actually warrant."
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