Sept. 26, 2012
4:47 a.m.
It is almost impossible these days to sign onto a mailing list or get a free id on some web site without clicking on a link in an e-mail. Yet apparently, you can register a domain name without such a nicety.
Quite right. Mail verification is a solved problem.
Phone verification is a lot more costly,
I'm not sure I believe that. I use a variety of services that verify transactions by calling my phone number and speaking a code number I have to type into their web site. Given how low value some of the transactions are, they can't be spending much on their IVR system.
Hopefully going forward, we will not make these kind of mistakes again.
My, you're an optimist. R's, John