New top-level domains a money grab and a mistake: Paul Vixie

Re:New top-level domains a money grab and a mistake: Paul Vixie by xgbi on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @05:33AM (#10457003)

Yeah a bit of pain, but at least you prevent some confusions, like "is it fr.microsoft or microsoft.software?" What if it happens that your company name is registered for another TLD and people start seeing it as a legit instance of your service?

What if you're a bank and somebody gets a TLD like "yourbank.bank" with valid SSL and starts fishing people from yourbank.com?

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Re:New top-level domains a money grab and a mistake: Paul Vixie by icebraining on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @06:01AM (#10457080)

What if it happens that your company name is registered for another TLD and people start seeing it as a legit instance of your service?

What happens now? It's not like there's a single domain already - there are dozens, if not hundreds of TLDs.

The realistic answer is: the new TLDs don't matter, even just with .com, it's easy to get a similar enough domain that many people will fall for.

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Re:New top-level domains a money grab and a mistake: Paul Vixie by h1762581 on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @07:07AM (#10457298)

I remember the good old steamcornmutiny.

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