ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

Fri Jun 27 08:28:33 UTC 2008

michael.dillon at bt.com i'rta:
>> There are probably some variations based on the zone, 
>> languages, IDN'ability, etc., but it certainly is a good idea 
>> to be bankofamerica.* for reasons that I think are obvious to 
>> most of us.
>>     
>
> To make it hard for your customers to figure out whether a URL
> is legitimately owned by the bank? To make it easier for evil guys
> to steal from your customers by registering bonkofamerica.*
Maybe somebody start a trusted service under a new TLD,
and you can block all the others.

Laszlo Balazs