ICANN Set To Broaden World of Domain Names 41
hypnosec writes "ICANN, as a step towards expanding global top level domain names, has approved a new Domain Name Registrar Accreditation Agreement that is expected to bring about waves of continued improvements in the domain name ecosystem (PDF). The new agreement is a result of efforts of over a year of negotiations that took place between ICANN and Registrar Stakeholders Group. The new agreement brings quite a few improvements, including making it mandatory for registrars to appoint a point-of contact for reporting abuse, and to establish registrar responsibilities for reseller compliance, enhancement of compliance tools, audit rights, and certification requirements, among others."
why? (Score:5, Insightful)
am I the only one that thinks this is useless complication that will make dns more of a pain to work with simply so icann can grab money.
Re:why? (Score:4, Insightful)
No, that is the normal thought for anyone who knows what DNS is. This is a money grab and evidence of our need to always feel we have to do something to justify our-self/our-group/our-job/our-ego instead of keeping the status quo. Also called change for the sake of change.
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am I the only one that thinks this is useless complication that will make DNS more of a pain to work with simply so ICANN can grab money.
If you thought anything else, you'd definitely be the only one...
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The massive flood of new TLDs is nothing more than a money grab. They don't add any value at all. .tv? Really? .name? It's ridiculous.
Re:why? (Score:5, Informative)
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That depends on whether you consider for-profit colleges to be educational solutions or not. But in all seriousness, it bothers me that our local for-profit diploma mills get .edu address but neither all educational levels (such as school districts) nor those outside the US (such as University of Cambridge or McGill) can. If DNS was not so darn helpful and engrained, I'd say screw it and start over.
"Diploma mills" (Score:2)
The joke is that when most people say "diploma mill" what they mean is "Any school less prestigious, however slightly, than the one I attended." But the term means something specific: fake schools that offer no instruction and just sell unrecognized credentials for cash. Many for profit schools may be expensive and unremarkable, but that doesn't mean they're diploma mills.
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I work for ordinary folks and its hard enough to teach them to watch what they type or click on and only stick to .com,.net, and .org
Idea a domain shouldn't be trusted just because it's from a foreign country sounds like something the DHS would say.
Maybe you should be teaching these people that a domain doesn't stop at the dot and to learn the entire domain name for something to recognize it properly, instead of following a (rather ethnocentric sounding) maxim.
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Re:why? (Score:5, Insightful)
ICANN is busy considering over 1800 requests for new gTLDs like .shop, .motocycle, .google, .youtube, and .lol.
All of which are completely useless and will only be used for phishing/scams/spams/malwares.
Re:why? (Score:4, Insightful)
Plus it's going to really screw with name resolution. When I type 'ommadon' into my browser, how is it supposed to know if I mean to google on the string 'ommadon'*, or visit the host names 'ommadon' on my local network**, or resolve the gTLD 'ommadon'***? Any of the three possibilities could be valid - or possibly even all three. And none of them is a consistantly correct default. Even worse, 'guessing' wrong could be a security vulnerability - by spoofing broadcast name resolution an attacker could trivially appear on a local network with a hostname of his choice, so every time someone tried to google on a common word they'd be redirected to his own server.
*Cheaply-animated villain with a habbit of laughing evily a lot.
**My NAS box.
*** I can't imagine why anyone would register this, but it could happen.
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It doesn't. It uses a priority order: First resolve, if resolve fails then assume it was a search term.
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Perhaps prices will be lower in the future - and you can be sure that some organisations, somewhere, have named their servers after brand names. Administrators like memorable names - the first ISP I used named their dialup servers after pokemon - so it's almost certain that someone has been naming their servers after cars or foodstuffs.
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When I type 'ommadon' into my browser, how is it supposed to know if I mean to google on the string 'ommadon'*, or visit the host names 'ommadon' on my local network**, or resolve the gTLD 'ommadon'***?
If browser developers hadn't conflated the address field with the search field it wouldn't be a problem.
Your DCP or static confg sets the search domains. If ommadon doesn't exist in any of those ( that is, not your NAS box ), try to resolve .ommadon. as a eponymous host in that gTLD.
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use IPv6 for local network (and place em into the hosts file) - Enforce IPv6 Privacy Extensions and what not on the local net and use encryption (tls/https) to prevent spoofing
Re:why? (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, they still havn't solved the homoglyph problem.
You're quite right, though. It's just a big money-grab. There isn't a shortage of domains. There's a shortage of the really good domains, but adding more isn't going to help with that because it just means every major company is going to need to buy yet more variations of their name to prevent a prankster, porn site or competitor using them.
Definition (Score:4)
waves of continued improvements in the domain name ecosystem.
ICANN is apparently using a broader definition of "improve"... because to date, very little that they've done has been anything but a cluster fuck of greed, incompetence, and blamestorming. Basically, everything I've come to expect from the committee decision-making process, as overseen by dozens of governments. And this latest "wave" of improvement is basically standardizing that process so that it is easier for corporations and governments to rapidly screw up the internet -- "accountability" in this context is code for "faster domain seizure".
New requirements ... (Score:4, Interesting)
Pile enough crap on and small enterprises and individuals won't be able to handle a domain on their own. Enter the management companies, who will extract fees for handling all of this overhead. Worse yet, it will push owners of domains who can no longer afford to maintain them to put them back on the market, where the big corporations can get their hands on them.
I have known a number of people who registered valuable domains, not as squatters but small businesses who were smart or quick enough to get there first. Some have fallen for the trap of companies that 'manage' domains in return for signing over ownership. The result was their losing the domain when their 'manager' unilaterally determined the domain had more value on the market than the present user gave it.
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Someone's asleep at the wheel (Score:5, Interesting)
Under the new agreement it would be mandatory for registrars to confirm the phone numbers or addresses of domain name buyers within 15 days of domain registration.
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That is probably the 2nd biggest point to take from this greedy money grab PR stunt, may even be the primary underlying reason. Just think of all the pirates the MAFIAA could grab from their houses, instead of simply taking their domain names?