Re:My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-f...
by batiudrami on Friday May 11, 2012 @01:38AM
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If you're looking for secure payments, you can always direct customers to a .secure payments handler, in much the same way that Paypal does already. The whole domain wouldn't have to operate under a .secure domain, in fact that would be undesirable as it would diminish the importance of it customer's eyes if every major website is on a .secure domain.
Re:My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-f...
by Karunamon on Thursday May 10, 2012 @10:18PM
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EV SSL can be had for around $300 a year, there's an entire freaking industry that exists around card processing so you don't have to fuss around with PCI nonsense, and I've actually never seen a "trust seal" on a site that wasn't already shady at some point.
That said, .secure seems like a poor solution in search of a problem.
The complicated paperwork will not only drive phishers and scammers away. It also excludes people with little capital but a genuine intent to do business. We already have these barriers:
- Extended Validation SSL
- Merchant Account (including PCI compliance)
- All kinds of trust seals
The cost of these products can be several thousands of dollars every year and they have become pretty much a must-have for anyone who wants to be trusted more easily.
.secure will just impose another barrier, unfortunately.