Re: [apps-discuss] CONTEXTJ in TLD DNS-Labels (draft-liman-tld-names-05)

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

On Jul 20, 2011, at 5:18 AM, John C Klensin wrote:

> --On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 12:49 -0700 Paul Hoffman
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>> ...
>> "Phishing" in the root
>> zone, given the horrendous weight of the process for getting
>> new names put in the root zone, is not a threat. Which others
>> do you believe that need to be weighed against the value of
>> the characters?
> 
> ICANN has agreed to change the process for getting new names put
> in the root zone.  The new (and approved) model for obtaining a
> TLD as of next year is essentially "pay your application fee
> and, unless a very narrow range of objections occurs, you get
> the name".  All, or substantially all, of the requirements for
> staff or third-party review that carried, in your words,
> "horrendous weight", have been eliminated.  The proposed
> application fee (USD 180000) is high enough to discourage some
> types of applicants, but that does not make the process
> "horrendous" -- one can either decide the TLD is important
> enough pay it or not.


How does buying a domain name for a large amount of money, using a stable corporate address, and doing the hosting using well-known servers constitute phishing? The argument you give here suggests that draft-liman-tld-names should add a new prohibition on TLDs that could be considered confusing; I hope you don't mean that.

--Paul Hoffman