[policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

Mon Aug 13 22:51:39 UTC 2007

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- -- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at cisco.com> wrote:

>There's a case to be made that a policy which results in  
organizations registering and owning domain names which are close to  
the intended domain anme but represent a common typographical  
transition is desirable from a security standpoint . . .
>

I don't think anyone could reasonably question the legitimacy for
someone like, say, Google, registering "gogle.com" or "goggle.com".

It should raise eyebrows, however, if "goggle.com" was registered
to RBusiness Network.

Or "allitalia.org", etc.

You get the idea.

- - ferg

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