The Starpointe Marketing Blog » tld http://starpointemarketing.com/blog market like you mean it Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:34:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Worst Idea Ever… .anything Domain Names http://starpointemarketing.com/blog/2008/07/worst-idea-ever-anything-domain-names/ http://starpointemarketing.com/blog/2008/07/worst-idea-ever-anything-domain-names/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:53:24 +0000 Ryan http://starpointemarketing.com/blog/?p=100 I just read that ICANN is considering opening the floodgates to webmasters so they can register any top-level-domain with at least three characters.

Not good.

The only people who will benefit from this are spammers, phishers, domain-squatters, and fraudsters. Imagine getting an email asking you to download document.doc. You’ll assume it’s a Word file. Wrong… it could be a link to a phishing website located at http://www.document.doc.

Do we need more TLDs? Yes. But there should be a thorough vetting process before releasing them into the wild.

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