Many new top-level domains have become Internet's "bad neighborhoods"
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/many-new-top-level-domains-have-become-internets-bad-neighborhoods/ There were many who warned that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) decision to allow a host of new commercial generic top-level Internet domains was going to create a huge opportunity for Internet scammers and hackers. The approval of top-level domains (TLDs) beyond those assigned to countries and generic ones such as .com, .org, and .net created an opportunity, some in the security industry warned, for criminals to set up "look-alike" domains in the new namespace that aped legitimate sites already registered in .com or elsewhere. Well, the warnings were spot-on. - - - Uh, like nobody predicted this, right? As Gomer Pyle would say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!" --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
