On 18 Mar 2010, at 14:40, John R. Levine wrote:
In any case, the larger questions is this: Why is this any of ICANN's concern? Why can't a TLD operator create a product that has strength attributes and see what customers it can attract? Isn't that a better way to learn how to do it, to innovate, to adapt, than a pre-conceived design from on-high from ICANN?
I missed today's call, but the current process appears destined to produce yet another meaningless seal like TrustE.
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
Feel free to join in the fun, though.
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