I was talking about public perception and the ability to change it through marketing; not any actual security. It's like the difference between ".com" and ".biz", "people" don't understand when something isn't a ".com" and don't trust it. When I say "people" I'm talking about the average non-technical consumer. That is all. I do think that this breaks more than it's worth, and while it will mean a short-term revenue boost, it doesn't seem very scaleable nor in the long-term interest of DNS on the whole. It sounds like we're beginning the process of migrating to AOL keywords; I wonder if AOL has a patent on it... On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:57 PM, <brunner@nic-naa.net> wrote:
ray,
... only trust ".band" and that ".com" et. al. are "less secure".
"secure" is not a well-defined term.
as the .com registry access model accepts credit card fraud risk, a hypothetical registry, say .giro, with wholesale registration at the same dollar price point but an access mechanism accepting less risk than credit card fraud would have less "insecure" registration events.
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