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Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...]
From: John Levine <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 3 Apr 2007 13:34:26 -0000
We cite this one because it was such an unbelievable cock-up it wasn't funny. Fyodor a blackhat? Seclists.org a malicious site? Honest to god did the guy do even the teensiest little bit of due diligence before shutting the site down?
He screwed up, we all know that. My point is that human processes are not infallible, and there's no reason to think that any process we may care to define is likely to be any better overall than the one they have now. If he were much more careful, and that meant that a thousand spam/phish domains stayed up for an extra week every year to avoid a two-day mistaken turndown, would that be better overall?
I agree that typosquatters and the like are the primary reason and that it should go away. As for the phishers- fine- say the problem is stolen credit cards. What then is the solution?
If it were up to me, I would put the price of domains back up to $100, and make them all take a month to get into the DNS. The whole idea that everyone needs a 2LD is utterly broken. But good luck putting that genie back into the bottle. R's, John
Current thread:
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names, (continued)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names David Conrad (Apr 02)
- ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Gadi Evron (Apr 02)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Douglas Otis (Apr 02)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] David Conrad (Apr 02)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Gadi Evron (Apr 02)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Andy Davidson (Apr 03)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Gadi Evron (Apr 03)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Donald Stahl (Apr 03)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] John Levine (Apr 03)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Donald Stahl (Apr 03)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] John Levine (Apr 03)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Joe Greco (Apr 03)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Matthew Crocker (Apr 03)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Andre Oppermann (Apr 03)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Gadi Evron (Apr 03)
- Bogon list considered harmful michael.dillon (Apr 03)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Joe Greco (Apr 03)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Adrian Chadd (Apr 03)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Joe Greco (Apr 03)
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] John Levine (Apr 03)
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