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Home 02 Jul 2009 What are TLDs good for? ICANN Yesterday I said that the original motivations for adding new TLDs were to break Verisign's monopoly on .COM, and to use domain names as directories. Competitive registrars broke the monopoly more effectively than any new domains, and the new domains that tried to be directories have failed. So what could a new TLD do? See more ... posted at: 21:59 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/whoneeds2.trackback 01 Jul 2009 Who needs more TLDs? ICANN ICANN's Sydney meeting has come and gone, with the promised flood of new top-level domains claimed to be ever closer to reality. Does the world need more TLDs? Well, no. See more ... posted at: 19:58 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/whoneedstlds.trackback 05 Jun 2009 Appeals Court revives the CFIT anti-trust suit agaist Verisign ICANN Back in 2005 an organization called the Coalition for Internet Transparency (CFIT) burst upon the scene at the Vancouver ICANN meeting, and filed an anti-trust suit against Verisign for their monopoly control of the .COM registry and of the market in expiring .COM domains. They didn't do very well in the trial court, which granted Verisign's motion to dismiss the case. But yesterday the Ninth Circuit reversed the trial court and put the suit back on track. See more ... posted at: 18:47 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/cfit.trackback 04 Jun 2009 Fight phishing with branding Email Phishing, the theft of personal information by impersonating a trusted organization, is a big problem that's not going away. Most antiphishing techniques to date have attempted to recognize fake e-mail and fake web sites, but this hasn't been particularly effective. A more promising approach is to brand the real mail and real web sites. See more ... posted at: 20:07 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/phight.trackback 15 May 2009 Don't mess with the Manx ICANN I got a note from a college friend via Facebook yesterday, telling me about the clever 282.im domain. Gee, it looked just like Facebook, like, you know, a phish. Uh oh. See more ... posted at: 07:21 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/manx.trackback

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