F-Secure Calls for '.safe' TLD

Rajesh writes "According to F-Secure, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers, should introduce a .safe domain name to be used by registered banks and other financial organizations."

Re:Maybe its just me..

[kisrael]

The choice of ".safe" also sounds like blatant propaganda...

Re:Maybe its just me..

[goombah99]

how about .careful ? To remind people not to assume something is safe from it's name. Otherwise please click on my NotAVirus.exe.

Who will accredit third world banks such as the FIRST BANK OF JOSEPH ENTBE OF NIGERIA?

Not a new idea.

[bigmaddog]

This sounds a whole lot like RFC #3514 [rfc.net] to me, except on a higher level, which makes the idea at least four years old.

Re:Maybe its just me..

[Corporate Troll]

I can't receive PayPal payments exactly because PayPal isn't legally a bank and/or financial institution in my country. It sucks.... At least I can use it for paying, that's not a problem (somehow...)

Re:.terror? what about .com?

[jacksonj04]

An awkward bit of history, back from when you had to follow the rules when registering domains and the US didn't have their own TLD, so they used .gov, .com, .org, .edu etc as their own and asked everybody else to use their own national TLDs.

Part of me misses the enforced rules bit, as now you can't tell where a website actually originates for. Anybody remember all the .to domains? fly.to, go.to etc, none of which came from Tonga.

what ever happened to the internet death penalty?

[Almost-Retired]

I see by the article that several chinese ISP's were asked to take down phishing sites, but refused.

To me that's the time to apply the internt death penalty, where the root dns servers refuse to give out the addresses of the offending domains.

We did it to korea a couple of times, with temporarily mixed results, but IMO the takedown (I think it was only 3 days) wasn't of sufficient duration to really get their attention.

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