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The world's governments have told domain name overseer ICANN that its processes are "complex, lengthy and ambiguous" and warned that they may be ineffective at dealing with domain-name abuse or fraud. The extraordinary statement comes in the official communiqué [PDF] of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of ICANN, …

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  1. thames

    Dot Word Domains

    Dot-word domains, the gift that keeps on giving. I am going to laugh like hell if everyone just blocks them at the firewall or spam filter like they deserve to be.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Yeah, the guys who own (amongst lots of others) ".army", ".navy", and ".airforce" registered their intent to allow country codes as 2LDs - so anyone could buy, e.g. ".us.army" or ".us.airforce" - on 18th December 2014, so the 30 days ran out on 17th January 2015.

    Between Holiday Season and government bureaucracy, almost no chance for the respective governments to notice and say "WTF"

    All other things being equal "www.recruiting.us.navy" could be anybody at all, but plenty of gullible young wannbe sailors and sailorettes are likely to give a site with a name like that (and some carefuly selected graphical elements) all the information anyone would ever want to do identity theft

    Sigh

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      "Between Holiday Season and government bureaucracy, almost no chance for the respective governments to notice and say "WTF" "

      In other good news, it's been announced that as it takes governments 60 days to respond to anything, all citizens in all countries are to be given 60 days to query any tax any government says they are due to pay, and the governments won't be allowed to do anything at all to do wth that matter until after that period ...

      no?

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  3. Captain DaFt

    In a way, serves'em right!

    Now governments have a taste of what us poor plebs go through wading through their tax codes!

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  4. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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    after-the-fact complaint system

    Yeah, because ICANN is really, really reliable where complaints are concerned. There is absolutely no example of any complaint that has not been rigorously handled and justifiably managed, no sir, cross my heart (you shut up in the back, or I will cross your domain off the Web forever).

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