ICANN's proposal to go ahead with another round of gTLDs is a complete money grab, and another giant fraud, spam and scam turd for Internet users in general. I'm talking about tlds like .top, .work, .shop, .vip, etc.
New domains used for phishing, spam and scams account for an overwhelming share of customers of these new gTLDs, which often have rock-bottom prices -- especially for bulk registrations. Overall, new gTLDs tend to be a race to the bottom where the only way they can make a profit is to sell domains en masse, and the market for such demand skews massively towards scammers.
ICANN's proposal to ignore history and introduce another round of new gTLDs should be squashed by regulators. But it won't. Like the AI crap being crammed into everything these days whether you like it or not, ICANN is going to keep creating new gTLDs because it's been a huge cash cow for them.
newgtldprogram.icann.org/en/ap…
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/113499282585727276
https://newgtldprogram.icann.org/en/application-rounds/round2
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At least we could have some really cool TLD's like .EXE or .RETRO so we could have some fun.
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@briankrebs I just have mail rules immediately deleting *.shop, *.top, etc etc.
[shitpost, not so serious]
@briankrebs More nice TLDs would be good if they had a way to stop scams from using them.
@briankrebs which jurisdictions regulation are you referring to? ICANN’s policies haven’t been approved by the ntia since 2016 and do you really want that to return? ICANN the org doesn’t make […]
@briankrebs I somewhat agree, but this brand of enshittification feeds on user ignorance. IT pros cultivate that ignorance.
The Internet is supposed to have a culture, and being aware of […]
@briankrebs All I can say is would you like to pay with XMR with your new domain? Kind of like the would you like Fries with that? Lol
@briankrebs if like to see national names organisations refuse to support resolvers of these TLDs en bloc.
@briankrebs wait, they're introducing .work? Isn't .works already available? There's no way that'll be abused
@briankrebs I really don't like the idea of governments regulating what sites should be named.
A better solution would be if the browser producers band together and start warning when the user […]
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