On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names

Sun Apr 1 00:45:55 UTC 2007

On Mar 31, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine  
wrote:

> The temporal value of a domain that sinks phish click stream has  
> some decay
> property, that is, today's phish name of (check your inbox)  
> probably isn't
> very useful to the authors of the present phish (etc) decades from  
> now, or
> even days from now.

Certainly, in a case where everything works according to plan.

What about the inputs to the system, however, and the potential for  
abuse?  Who decides the legigitmacy/reputational value of a  
particular domain?  What about mistakes and collateral damage?

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