Inside the Briefcase
gTLD Security Threat Less Than Meets the Eye
January 16, 2012 No CommentsSOURCE: TechNewsWorld
Despite the pleas of some regulators and the advertising industry, the overlords of the Internet — the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — plunged forward last week with its plan to drastically expand the number of generic top level domains on the Net.
Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) are what come after the dot in an Internet address — .com, .net, .org, .gov and so forth. Under the new ICANN scheme, anyone can have anything they want after that dot — as long as they have the cash to do it.
