ICANN's proposal to go ahead with another round of gTLDs is a complete money grab, and another giant fraud, spam and scam turd for Internet users in general.

[briankrebs@infosec.exchange]

ICANN's proposal to go ahead with another round of gTLDs is a complete money grab, and another giant fraud, spam and scam turd for Internet users in general. I'm talking about tlds like .top, .work, .shop, .vip, etc.

New domains used for phishing, spam and scams account for an overwhelming share of customers of these new gTLDs, which often have rock-bottom prices -- especially for bulk registrations. Overall, new gTLDs tend to be a race to the bottom where the only way they can make a profit is to sell domains en masse, and the market for such demand skews massively towards scammers.

ICANN's proposal to ignore history and introduce another round of new gTLDs should be squashed by regulators. But it won't. Like the AI crap being crammed into everything these days whether you like it or not, ICANN is going to keep creating new gTLDs because it's been a huge cash cow for them.

https://newgtldprogram.icann.org/en/application-rounds/round2

[lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org]

@briankrebs The irony of course is that the deluge of garbage gTLDs has served to vastly increase the value of good dot-com TLDs, as I and others predicted years ago.

[caesar@indieweb.social]

@briankrebs I mean isn't ICANN as a whole a "giant fraud, spam and scam turd" anyhow?

[fgcallari@mastodon.online]

@lauren @briankrebs well, does a fix really need regulators' intervention? What if enough large DNS services simply stopped resolving garbage TLD's en masse?

[lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org]

@fgcallari @briankrebs You can't do that with ICANN decisions.

[fgcallari@mastodon.online]

@lauren @briankrebs

Why? Genuinely curious - who would go after, say, Xfinity, if their DNS service (which is used by default by 99% of their customers) simply did not resolve .dingdong or .makemoneyfast ?

[183231bcb@transfem.social]

@[email protected] I own a .wiki domain and am considering buying a second one. I also co-run another .wiki domain that I don't own.

Was it wrong for ICANN to create the .wiki TLD? Is it bad that I'm using a .wiki domain? Would it be unethical to buy another one? Is it unethical for me to keep using the one I already have?

[183231bcb@transfem.social]

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Xfinity is the only ISP in my area and they (albeit briefly) blocked a domain that I own. I had to use a VPN to access my own site. The site in question is on one of those "weird" TLDs (.wiki).

I don't believe ISPs should be allowed to block domains, let alone TLDs.