Comment on ICANN’s Malicious Domain Mitigation Policy

In case you didn’t know, ICANN is working on allowing people to create new Top Level Domains (TLDs).  Some possible new domains include .bank, or .ny, or .health. 

For those of you in the security and fraud spaces, I’m sure you can recognize the risk inherent in this.  Not only will there be TLDs that could allow for fraud and security risks, but having many more TLD operators can add a huge amount of complexity to those of us fighting the good fight.

To that end, my friend and colleague – Dave Piscitello – has written a blog about the requirements being proposed in the new TLD guidebook.  You can see Dave’s blog here.  He does a great job explaining the nine requirements in the current draft of the guidebook and why they are important.

Dave’s call to action, and mine as well, is that if you are concerned about these new TLDs (as you should be) and want to contribute to the effort to maintain the safety and security of the internet after this new TLD process is launched, then you should submit a comment to ICANN about why they should keep these nine mitigation policies in the TLD guidebook.  You might feel more strongly about some than others, or have suggestions about omissions that should also be included.  If so, feel free to comment about that as well.

You can see other’s comments and submit your comments here.  Comments from individuals and organizations are both appreciated.  The key is submitting lots of comments so that the ICANN community is sure to enforce the appropriate policies with these new TLDs.  Thanks for your help!

---

Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)

• What Does ICANN Have to Do With the Domain Names I Buy?
• ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers