There's a guy who consults for the travel industry, and says they're very interested due to all the phishing and fake travel web sites. I pointed out that I've never seen a fake web site in .TRAVEL, so why don't they use that. Uh, because they like .COM. So why bother?
*sigh*
So he wants everyone to have .com, but the High Security Zone thing is only applicable to new TLDs ..
I can see potential value in the concept, but I'd agree, why on earth is it ICANN's problem? If someone wants to setup .bank as a secure TLD for financial institutions then one of the USPs could be all this stuff
So, who's job is going to be to monitor & certify that a HSTLD complies with the security requirements, etc, ICANN ? I believe this is another waste of time and resources in the ICANNsphere which does not provide any public benefit, if the new gTLD operator wants to add this level of security to attract financial institutions to be part of it, that's OK, but as Michelle says why ICANN needs to be involved ? Regards Jorge