Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>]

On Jun 29, 2008, at 5:45 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:53:06PM +0200,
> Jeroen Massar <jeroen () unfix org> wrote
> a message of 49 lines which said:
>
> > not even thinking of all the nice security issues which come along
> > (home, mycomputer and .exe etc anyone ?
>
> This requires serious elaboration. How could you use a domain in
> ".exe" to actually attack someone? (No handwaving, please, actual
> study.)

I think it would be the other way around - I would assume that that  
was a near worthless TLD, as it
would come with a built in DOS : If I had (say) program.exe as a  
domain name,
what Windows user would ever type it in ?

Regards
Marshall

> > Thank you people doing all the ICANN politics for destroying the  
> > Internet.
>
> The Internet, until now, resisted to forces much more powerful than
> ICANN.