<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Matt Larson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@kahlerlarson.org" target="_blank">matt@kahlerlarson.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A high-level answer is that the availability of cheap domains with frictionless registration</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> tends to lead to abuse, and these can be found among all TLD categories, not just the new gTLDs.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The proliferation of new gTLDS further reduces the friction for registering abusive domain names,</div><div>by increasing the number of possible TLD suffixes, AND it likely also makes it much harder and more </div><div>expensive for Legitimate entities to effectively control the use of their unique names within </div><div>the second-level domains of DNS to discourage false/phishing registrations by proactively</div><div>registering their famous company names or commonly-associated keywords on top of major TLD suffixes.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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As it happens, ICANN's Office of the CTO has developed the Domain Abuse Activity Reporting (DAAR) tool to answer this question (among others).</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>-JH</div></div>
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