On 9/9/10 11:42 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> On Behalf Of Douglas Otis
>> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 11:16 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [dkim-ops] subdomain vs. cousin domain (when deploying 
>> "discardable")
>>
>> On 9/9/10 9:51 AM, McDowell, Brett wrote:
>>> Does everyone agree that this is the "best practice" for the use case
>>> provided (ignoring I only gave you two namespace options)?
>> Until more comprehensive policy becomes available, yes.
>>
>> In general, using a cousin domain is a bad practice, where the term
>> "far" has not been met by your current practice. [...]
> Are there any recorded data supporting that assertion?
>
We experienced an increase in phishing when our marketing department 
decided to use cousin domains to promote new products.  This left us 
dealing with a greater number of complaints from users confused by what 
they had installed. Unfortunately, there is an entire industry devoted 
to taking advantage of user confusion.

-Doug
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